[Python-Dev] Type hints -- a mediocre programmer's reaction (original) (raw)

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Mon Apr 20 22:17:07 CEST 2015

On 21 April 2015 at 08:10, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com> wrote:

While it helps, this sort of best-practice is still unsettled (and apparently not obvious). In the short term it would make more sense to recommend using stub files for all the reason Harry enumerated. Once the best practices are nailed down through experience with stub files, then we can make recommendations regarding inline type hints. -eric

Forgive my ignorance, but can stub files can't annotate variables within functions? E.g. AIUI if there is a stub file, it is used in the static analysis instead of the actual source. Likely I've got it modelled wrong in my head :)

-Rob

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