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[Python-Dev] Type hints -- a mediocre programmer's reaction

[Python-Dev] Type hints -- a mediocre programmer's reaction [Python-Dev] Type hints -- a mediocre programmer's reactionRobert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Wed Apr 22 04:35:27 CEST 2015
On 22 April 2015 at 08:26, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> In the end this should be up to you and the reviewers, but for such a
> venerable module like unittest I'd be hesitant to be an early adopter. I'd
> also expect that much of unittest is too dynamic in nature to benefit from
> type hints. But maybe you should just try to use them for testtools and see
> for yourself how beneficial or cumbersome they are in that particular case?

Exactly yes. I've been experimenting recently with mypy to see. So far
I've regressed backthrough 4 repos (unittest2, testtools, traceback2,
linecache2) to get something small enough to work and experiment with.

-Rob

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