[Python-Dev] PEP 563: Postponed Evaluation of Annotations (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Fri Nov 10 01:42:36 EST 2017

I didn't follow the discussion on the PEP but I was surprised to read "from future import annotations" in an example. Annotations exist since Python 3.0, why would Python 3.7 require a future for them? Well, I was aware of the PEP, but I was confused anyway.

I really prefer "from future import string_annotations" !

Victor

Le 10 nov. 2017 03:14, "Nick Coghlan" <ncoghlan at gmail.com> a écrit :

On 10 November 2017 at 05:51, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: > If we have to change the name I'd vote for stringannotations -- "lazy" has > too many other connotations (e.g. it might cause people to think it's the > thunks). I find strannotations too abbreviated, and stringifyannotations > is too hard to spell.

Aye, I'd be fine with "from future import stringannotations" - that's even more explicitly self-documenting than either of my suggestions. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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