[Python-3000] generics [was: Discussions with no PEPs] (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Mar 9 23:35:29 CET 2007

On 3/9/07, Tony Lownds <tony at pagedna.com> wrote:

On Mar 9, 2007, at 11:36 AM, Talin wrote: > 2) Backport the argument annotations patch to the 2.X series and > get it > out to the public as quickly as possible. (According to the > conversation > I had with Guido, this should be relatively easy since the annotations > patch was one of the first patches to diverge between 2.X and 3.0). Do you think that there will be support for this? Annotations seem like a big new feature for Python, more suited to Python 3.X. With tuple parameters removed, there would still be divergence in 2.X.

But not much; we could drop the annotation feature for tuple parameters (since it won't survive in 3.0) and warn about tuple params if the -Wpy3k flag is given.

By the way, I would like to work on either removing tuple parameters in 3.0

That would be great!

or fixing the assertion failure currently in CVS.

Perhaps you should switch to SVN? :-)

More seriously, what assertion failure?

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