[Python-ideas] Conventions for function annotations

[David Townshend]

> I fear that this was a strategic mistake. The result, it seems to me, is
that
> annotations have been badly neglected.
>
> I can't speak for others, but I heavily use the standard library as a
guide
> to what counts as good practice in Python. I'm not a big user of third
party
> libraries, and most of those are for 2.x, so with the lack of annotations
in
> the std lib I've had no guidance as to what sort of things annotations
could
> be used for apart from "type checking".
>
> I'm sure that I'm not the only one.
>
>
>
> --
> Steven
>

+1
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