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

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Wed Apr 22 04:35:27 CEST 2015

On 22 April 2015 at 08:26, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

In the end this should be up to you and the reviewers, but for such a venerable module like unittest I'd be hesitant to be an early adopter. I'd also expect that much of unittest is too dynamic in nature to benefit from type hints. But maybe you should just try to use them for testtools and see for yourself how beneficial or cumbersome they are in that particular case?

Exactly yes. I've been experimenting recently with mypy to see. So far I've regressed backthrough 4 repos (unittest2, testtools, traceback2, linecache2) to get something small enough to work and experiment with.

-Rob

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