On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 12:19:15PM -0700, Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas wrote: > On Sep 2, 2019, at 23:50, Philippe Prados <pyt...@prados.fr> wrote: > > > > Add a new operator for `Union[type1|type2]` ? > > Hold on. Are you proposing `Union[t1 | t2]` as a new spelling for > `Union[t1, t2]`? That seems pointless. I thought you were proposing > just `t1 | t2`, which seems a whole lot more useful (and no more > disruptive)? > > I’m going to assume this is just a typo?
I too assume it was a typo, but for the record, since Union already flattens nested Unions, Union[str|int] would be equivalent to Union[Union[str|int]] which flattens to just str|int. -- Steven _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/XZAWTH6FCO3PUJ325NY6CP52KRWVOUHS/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/