On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 3:31 PM Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > > Chris Angelico wrote: > > At the moment, it isn't defined particularly as either a function or a > > class, > > Well, it's listed under a section called "Functions", so the reader > could be forgiven for assuming that it's a function.
Ah, fair point. Though the fact that the very next entry in the docs is the "alternative constructor" chain.from_iterable, you can likely deduce that it's actually a class. > From a high > level point of view, it is -- you call it and it returns something. > Concretely, it happens to be implemented as a class, but that's not > something you need to know in order to use it, so the docs don't > mention it. Exactly. Doesn't make a lot of difference whether it's a factory function or a class. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
