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On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 6:11 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:

On 10 November 2017 at 05:51, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
\> If we have to change the name I'd vote for string\_annotations -- "lazy" has
\> too many other connotations (e.g. it might cause people to think it's the
\> thunks). I find str\_annotations too abbreviated, and stringify\_annotations
\> is too hard to spell.

Aye, I'd be fine with "from \_\_future\_\_ import string\_annotations" -
that's even more explicitly self-documenting than either of my
suggestions.

--Guido van Rossum (python.org/\~guido)