I don't think that's how we name things. (Though it's a great tongue twister. :-)
On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 1:33 AM Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, 25 Jul 2021, 9:26 pm Serhiy Storchaka, <storch...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> In 3.10 the union type (the type of the result of the | operator for >> types) was added (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0604/). It is >> exposed as types.Union. There are differences between typing.Union and >> types.Union: >> >> * typing.Union is indexable, types.Union is not. >> * types.Union is a class, typing.Union is not. >> >> types.Union corresponds to private class typing._UnionGenericAlias, not >> typing.Union. It is confusing that typing.Union and types.Union have the >> same name but are so different. Note also that most classes in the types >> module have the "Type" suffix: FunctionType, MethodType, ModuleType, >> etc. I think that it would be better to rename types.Union to >> types.UnionType. >> > > If we wanted to be completely explicit, the most exact name would be > "TypeUnionType": it is the type of object you get specifically when > unioning types, not when unioning arbitrary objects. > > Cheers, > Nick. > > >> _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/3O6STJNH6NCNWEBOGV3OB3DC6M2K47RN/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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