[Python-Dev] Optional type checking/pluggable type systems for Python (original) (raw)

Neil Dunn ndunn at ndunn.com
Sat Oct 21 16:13:48 CEST 2006

Dear All

I'm a Master's student at Imperial College London currently selecting a Master's thesis subject. I am exploring the possibility of "optional typing" and "pluggable type systems" (Bracha) for Python. Reading around I see that PEP 246 (object adaption) was dropped for "something better". Is this "something better" currently in production for Python 3000 or just a thinking ground.

I'd like to know whether there would be any merit in exploring the project or whether this is something that is going to appear as implementation within the next 6 months (the length of my thesis).

If you think it is still something worth exploring I'd plan to pick up the idea as a research project and explore implementations, probabaly in CPython or Jython.

Any help with this would be great, could you please reply directly to ndunn at ndunn.com as I haven't subscribed to python-dev for a while now.

Thanks, Neil Dunn

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