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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 00:06:20 -0600
Subject: Re: Bools and explicitness [was Re: PyWart: The problem with "print"]
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On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Russ P. <Russ.Paielli@gmail.com> wrote:
> I recall reading a few years ago that Guido was thinking about adding opt=
ional type annotations. I don't know if that went anywhere or not, but I th=
ought it was a good idea. Eventually I got tired of waiting, and I realized=
 that I just wanted a statically typed language, so I started using one.

Python 3 has support for arbitrary function argument annotations.  The
language itself ascribes no special meaning to it, so it's up to the
user to add a type-checker (or whatever else they might want to use it
for).