On Wed, May 6, 2020, 9:53 PM Eric Fahlgren <ericfahlg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 6:27 PM David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote: > >> I don't think being a function versus a classmethod is important here. >> Just that the underlying name is *callable*. >> > > But wait a minute, zip isn't just a "callable", it's a class, and adding > more methods to it seems perfectly natural, just like lots of other > built-in classes. > Zip is a class in CPython 3.8. it may or may not be in other implementations or versions. The API users are currently promised says nothing about it needing to be implemented as a class. Moreover, even if Python 3.9 decides to make zip() a function instead, that wouldn't prevent the alternate constructors being implemented.
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