Sorry, I really should have had my morning coffee before making that reply.
Big-time thinko :)

What I meant to say is that the other comparable builtin types
(comma-delimited containers of some description) that have literals built
into the language (list, tuple, dict) also have a literal that represents
an empty version of themselves, except for set. It's not really much of an
argument, but I figured I'd mention it.

On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 1:23 PM Serhiy Storchaka <[email protected]> wrote:

> 09.04.21 12:50, Matt del Valle пише:
> > I think sets are the only type in the builtins module
> > without a dedicated literal syntax?
>
> Not only. bytearray, frozenset, slice. It is difficult to create some
> complex objects without using constructor. Not counting range,
> memoryview and dict views, descriptors (staticmethod, classmethod,
> property), exceptions, iterators (filter, map, zip, enumerate, reversed
> and numerous collection iterators). All these types are defined in the
> builtins module.
>
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