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andybak on May 18, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Type checking in Python

As the article mentions - the big advantage of decorators is Python 2.x compatibility. (not that I want to start another discussion of THAT topic)

EDIT - looks like obiwan will allow decorators as well as annotations. I do prefer the syntax of typedecorator though. It seems less cluttered.

andreasvc on May 18, 2014 [–]

It's a matter of taste. I think the decorator approach looks more bolted-on and ad hoc. I prefer C style declarations over annotations, though, because they have the least amount of noise.

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