[Python-Dev] Status of PEP 484 and the typing module (original) (raw)

Jim J. Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Fri May 22 18:45:52 CEST 2015

Mark Shannon wrote:

PY2, etc. really need to go. Assuming that this code type checks OK:

if typing.PY2: typesafeunderpy2only() else: typesafeunderpy3only() Is the checker supposed to pass this: if sys.hexversion < 0x03000000: typesafeunderpy2only() else: typesafeunderpy3only() If it should pass, then why have PY2, etc. at all.

My immediate response was that there really is a difference, when doing the equivalent of cross-compilation. It would help to make this explicit in the PEP.

But ...

If it should fail, well that is just stupid and annoying.

so I'm not sure regular authors (as opposed to typing tools) would ever have reason to use it, and making stub files more different from regular python creates an attractive nuisance bigger than the clarification.

So in the end, I believe PY2 should merely be part of the calling convention for type tools, and that may not be worth standardizing yet. It is worth explaining why they were taken out, though.

And it is worth saying explicitly that typing tools should override the sys module when checking for non-native environments.

-jJ

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