On Thu, Jan 22, 2015, at 13:28, Mark Lawrence wrote: > Evidence in completely the opposite direction if I'm reading this > correctly https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/#usage-patterns > > "The main use case of type hinting is static analysis using an external > tool without executing the analyzed program. Existing tools used for > that purpose like pyflakes [pyflakes] or pylint [pylint] might be > extended to support type checking. New tools, like mypy's mypy -S mode, > can be adopted specifically for this purpose.
How is that the opposite direction? It's a short jump from there to "pylint [or whatever tool] will consider a lack of type hinting to be something to warn for" and "managers/customers will consider this warning to mean your program has failed and is unacceptable". -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list