R. David Murray added the comment: There was a long thread about this on python-dev that might be worth going back over, where I had the same misconception (that functions should always return the same type as their arguments). While I think that should be the default design, it isn't always the best API. (The real rule, if I recall correctly, is that functions should never accept *mixed* argument types for input data.)
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