Commentary¶
Python’s growth is «absolutely explosive« and not slowing down, says Anaconda CEO, Peter Wang.
There are two things that Python does that are very different from all other major languages.
Number one, it has a pedigree of being a teaching language. It's easy to use, easy to pick up, kids use it, non-programmers pick it up in a weekend. This is not accidental; it has been a hardcore part of the design from the very beginning and quite intentional…
The second thing that’s interesting about Python is that from the very beginning it’s good as a glue language.
I mean, Python’s competitor is Excel.
Mypy 0.9 Released¶
- Now Mypy only ships with type stubs for stdlib modules. If you use third-party libraries that don’t include stubs or inline type annotations, you can explicitly install stub packages
- Mypy now supports TypeGuard, user-defined functions that perform type narrowing, similar to
isinstance; see also PEP 647