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Mon Apr 20 23:09:18 CEST 2015 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2015-April/139251.html

So I guess the main difference is that type annotations in stub files
wouldn't be available at runtime?  Ie, they wouldn't magically appear in
__annotations__ (unless the python interpreter itself started to evaluate
stub files too)

On 20 April 2015 at 22:02, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Harry Percival <harry.percival at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> > stub files are only used to type-check *users* of a module. If you want
>> a module itself to be type-checked you have to use inline type hints
>>
>> is this a fundamental limitation, or just the current state of tooling?
>>
>
> It's not fundamental, it's just more in line with the original purpose of
> stubs (to describe C extensions).
>
> --
> --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
>

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