[Python-3000] Draft pre-PEP: function annotations (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Aug 15 03:13:53 CEST 2006

Phillip J. Eby wrote:

It can't be a "separate program altogether", since to get at the annotations, the program must import the module that contains them.

Why? I can imagine something like a documentation generator or static type checker that just parses the source, being careful not to execute anything.

Also, even if it does work by importing the module, how is the module being imported supposed to know which annotation processor is going to be processing its annotations, and therefore what generic methods need to be overridden, and how to go about doing that -- assuming there is no standardisation of any sort?

-- Greg

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