On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 6:02 AM Larry Hastings <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Oh, okay. I haven't used the static type checkers, so it's not clear to me > what powers they do and don't have. It was only a minor suggestion anyway. > Perhaps PEP 649 will be slightly inconvenient to people exploring their code > inside IPython. >
Not only IPython, but many REPLs. Especially, Jupyter notebook is the same to IPython. We can see string annotations even in CPython REPL via pydoc. ``` >>> def func(a: "Optional[int]") -> "Optional[str]": ... ... ... >>> help(func) func(a: 'Optional[int]') -> 'Optional[str]' ``` Since this signature with type hints came from inspect.signature(func), all tools using inspect.signature() will be affected too. I think Sphinx autodoc will be affected, but I am not sure. > Or maybe it'd work if they gated the if statement on running in ipython? > > if typing.TYPE_CHECKING or os.path.split(sys.argv[0])[1] == "ipython3": > import other_mod > It is possible for heavy modules, but not possible to avoid circular imports. Additionally, there are some cases modules are not runtime importable. * Optional dependency, user may not install it. * Dummy modules having only "pyi" files. If PEP 563 becomes the default, we can provide a faster way to get the text signature without eval() annotated string. So eval() performance is not a problem here. Many type hinting use cases don't need type objects in runtime. So I think PEP 563 is better for type hinting user experience. Regards, -- Inada Naoki <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/QR2KOGAXR5T4GTLGL5NLPWSVWPGVFQAI/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/