[Python-Dev] Is static typing still optional?

[Julien Salort]

Le 15/12/2017 à 22:14, Paul Moore a écrit :

> Annotations and the annotation syntax are fundamental to the design.
> But that's core Python syntax. But I wouldn't describe types as being
> that significant to the design, it's more "if you supply them we'll
> make use of them".
Naive question from a lurker: does it mean that it works also if one
annotates with something that is not a type, e.g. a comment,

@dataclass
class C:
     a: "This represents the amplitude" = 0.0
     b: "This is an offset" = 0.0