[Python-Dev] Remove typing from the stdlib (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Tue Nov 7 04:40:49 EST 2017

On 7 November 2017 at 05:20, Ethan Smith <ethan at ethanhs.me> wrote:

I'm not so keen on this because I think some things in typing (such as NamedTuple) probably deserve to be in the collections module. And some of the ABCs could probably also be merged with collections.abc but doing this correctly and not all at once would be quite difficult. I do think the typing concepts should be better integrated into the standard library. However, a fair amount of the clases you list (such as NamedTuple) are in of themselves dependent on parts of typing.

This is a good point. To what extent is it true that the stdlib already uses the typing module internally, it's just that the usage is hidden by the fact that the examples of this are in the typing module - not because they "should" be there but simply because it isolates the use of typing to that one module?

Paul

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