>> 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.
I think David is right: itertools.chain.from_iterable() is the only
> place I know of with an attribute on a function that's another function.
> Alternate constructors are generally classmethods. Not that the
> distinction is terribly important, but it is a distinction, and it's
> documented differently.
>
I don't think being a function versus a classmethod is important here.
Just that the underlying name is *callable*.
If the implementation was like this dumb example, it wouldn't matter that
it was a class instance (e.g. for a hypothetical `greet` builtin)
>>> class Greeting:
... def __call__(self, name):
... print("Hello", name)
... def twice(self, name):
... print(f"Hi {name}, howdy there!")
...
>>> greet = Greeting()
>>> greet('Eric')
Hello Eric
>>> greet.twice('Eric')
Hi Eric, howdy there!
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