[issue10899] No function type annotations in the standard library

[Guido van Rossum]

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> added the comment:

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Antoine Pitrou <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
> Could we simply state in PEP 8 that annotations have no official meaning and that anyone (including stdlib developers) can use it for whatever purpose they see fit?

No, that is less strong than what I said. I agree with Raymond that
they should be kept out of the stdlib until we've come up with a
convention.

>> FWIW, I've long wished that the stdlib (and perhaps even PEP 8) would
>> adopt a *comment-based* convention for indicating the types of arguments.
>
> You mean docstring-based?

Sorry, yes.

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