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

Collin Winter collinw at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 23:59:30 CET 2007

On 3/9/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

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.

This sounds right to me.

Collin Winter

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