On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 9:50 PM, Eric V. Smith <e...@trueblade.com> wrote: > >>> 3. Annotations. They are used mainly by third party tools that >>> statically analyze sources. They are rarely used at runtime. >> >> Even less used than docstrings probably. > > typing.NamedTuple and dataclasses use annotations at runtime.
Astropy uses annotations at runtime for optional unit checking on arguments that take dimensionful quantities: http://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/api/astropy.units.quantity_input.html#astropy.units.quantity_input _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
