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Practical uses for function annotations

by Manuel Ceron for

Function annotations (PEP 3107) are a powerful and interesting feature of Python that no one is using. This talk presents three practical use cases that can make developer’s life better.

  • Type annotations for better tooling support and early error detection. Code analyzers, linters and IDEs can use type annotations to make smarter suggestions and show errors just after typing.

  • Logic predicate annotations and design by contract. Adding preconditions and postconditions to your functions in an expressive way.

  • Documentation consistency and auto-documentation. By enforcing annotations, it’s possible to check the consistency of docstrings or even create them automatically.

Here is a small library I wrote implementing some of the concepts I will discuss in the talk: typeannotations

in on Wednesday 3 July at 15:30 See schedule

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    You may want to include a pointer to the PEP, since I think most readers won't know what you are talking about, and Java programmers may assume you're talking about decorators. Hope you get in, looking forward to the talk!
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    Thanks Fredrik, I just added a link to PEP 3107.

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Language
EN
Duration
60 minutes (inc Q&A)

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