Inada Naoki <[email protected]> added the comment:
>
> The difference between eval_str=True and eval_str=ONLY_IF_STRINGIZED:
>
> def foo(a:int, b:"howdy howdy"): ...
>
> inspect.get_annotations(foo, eval_str=True) throws an exception.
> inspect.get_annotations(foo, eval_str=ONLY_IF_STRINGIZED) returns {'a': int,
> b: 'howdy howdy'}
>
> Type hints have a convention that string annotations are a "forward
> declaration" and should be eval()uated. Annotations don't have such a
> convention--a string is a legal annotation, and is not required to be valid
> Python.
>
For such use case, ONLY_IF_STRINGIZED thorows an exception for `def
foo(a: "howdy howdy")` anyway.
In such cases, they should use `eval_str=False`, or `eval_str=True`
*and* `return_str_when_eval_failed=True` option.
----------
_______________________________________
Python tracker <[email protected]>
<https://bugs.python.org/issue43817>
_______________________________________
_______________________________________________
Python-bugs-list mailing list
Unsubscribe:
https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com