Towards version 3

[jakob-keller]

Hello and thanks for this great library!

I recently migrated away from my own primitive sorted container implementation and have never looked back.

There is only one feature that is important to me, but is currently not provided: type hints. And it looks to me as if the community feels the same: #68, #155

I am reasonably experienced with inline type hints and would offer to prepare a PR for that purpose, or pick up the work already done by others: #107, #136

One precondition would be to drop support for EOL Python versions, which is anything older than Python 3.7 at this point. I could draft a corresponding PR, if there is interest.

This might be the ground work for sortedcontainers version 3, to be followed be other issues already tagged as V3.

How does @grantjenks feel about this?

[grantjenks]

The V3 tag is just old. I’ve deleted it.

[grantjenks]

I use type hints at work and haven’t liked them much. As I said in #68, I’d prefer if someone added support to the type shed and maintained them there for a while.

[jakob-keller]

I use type hints at work and haven’t liked them much. As I said in #68, I’d prefer if someone added support to the type shed and maintained them there for a while.

I understand and will look into that. Thanks for clarifying!

[grantjenks]

Regarding EOL Python versions, might want to keep Python 3.6 as it’s still the standard in Cent OS 7 which is not yet EOL.

[grantjenks]

Otherwise, closing as a dupe of #68 regarding type hints.

[jakob-keller]

Regarding EOL Python versions, might want to keep Python 3.6 as it’s still the standard in Cent OS 7 which is not yet EOL.

Fair point. Of course, removing support for CPython 3.6 only affects future releases of sortedcontainers. All existing releases continue to be available e.g. on PyPI and ensure that any dependencies for Cent OS 7 users or elsewhere won't break.