PEP 484: Add implicit promotions for Python 2.7 (#245)

This was discussed in python/typeshed#270 (comment). Both mypy and pytype behave as described already. We should document this behavior in the PEP to make sure people are aware of it and promote uniformity.

Mypy also implicitly promotes bytearray to bytes in both Python 2 and 3. Not sure if that's worth codifying in the PEP too.

@vlasovskikh Is this also OK for PyCharm?

Author: JelleZijlstra

pep-0484.txt

@@ -2126,6 +2126,9 @@ Notes:
         '''Docstring'''
         # # type: () -> None # This is OK
 
+When checking Python 2.7 code, type checkers should treat the ``int`` and
+``long`` types as equivalent. For parameters typed as ``unicode`` or
+``Text``, arguments of type ``str`` should be acceptable.
 
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