David E. Franco G. added the comment: I think that removing the "typing." is for the best, with the example above
>>> help(foo) Help on function foo in module __main__: foo(data:typing.List[typing.Any]) -> typing.Iterator[typing.Tuple[int, typing.Any]] >>> leaving the "typing." produce result that I think are ugly and distracting, not only that, is unnecessary long to convey the same information that can be in a more neat way without it, and more so while more complicated/long the signature is. just compare the above with this >>> help(foo) Help on function foo in module __main__: foo(data:List[Any]) -> Iterator[Tuple[int, Any]]: >>> which is a clear winner to me. Or perhaps alongside modifying inspect.formatannotation also change the __repr__ in typing to exclude the `typing.` or like with for instance TypeVar produce a repr that include some marker instead, like ~ and in that way indicate that one is using typing object resulting in something like this >>> help(foo) Help on function foo in module __main__: foo(data:~List[Any]) -> ~Iterator[~Tuple[int, ~Any]]: >>> which is a little weird but still neat ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27989> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
