Classes and types in the Python typing module
Classes and types in the Python typing module
[Front] Posted Jun 7, 2017 13:30 UTC (Wed) by jake
Mark Shannon is concerned that the Python core developers may be replaying a mistake: treating two distinct things as being the same. Treating byte strings and Unicode text-strings interchangeably is part of what led to Python 3, so he would rather not see that happen again with types and classes. The Python typing module, which is meant to support type hints, currently implements types as classes. That leads to several kinds of problems, as Shannon described in his session at the 2017 Python Language Summit.