On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 8:37 PM Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The only precedent that jumps out for me is itertools.chain() and > itertools.chain.from_iterable(). It's quite likely that something I don't > use much has used the same pattern though. > > That's an example of a very common pattern of alternate constructors. > The other Chris' comment was: zip.shortest(...) # same as zip(...) / zip.longest(...) / > zip.checksame(...) > I kind of like this -- is there any precedent for it in the standard > library? If it's a very common pattern, do you know of any in the standard library beyond the one I mentioned? Not about bikeshedding the spelling of the different constructors, but just: 1. A callable; 2. That has one or more functions attached to perform some variation on what that callable itself does. -- The dead increasingly dominate and strangle both the living and the not-yet born. Vampiric capital and undead corporate persons abuse the lives and control the thoughts of homo faber. Ideas, once born, become abortifacients against new conceptions.
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