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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sun Nov 12 00:07:07 EST 2017

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 11:02 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

On 11 November 2017 at 01:48, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: > I don't mind the long name. Of all the options so far I really only like > 'stringannotations' so let's go with that.

+1 from me.

I'd like to reverse my stance on this. We had from __future__ import division for many years in Python 2, and nobody argued that it implied that Python 2 doesn't have division -- it just meant to import the future version of division. So I think the original idea, from __future__ import annotations is fine. I don't expect there will be other things related to annotations that we'll be importing from the future.

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