<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brett Cannon</b> <<a href="mailto:brett@python.org">brett@python.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><br><div><div> Plus, what is wrong with passing on object to a type/class' constructor: ``str(42)``? Not redundant and it's still clean, obvious, and does not require new syntax.
</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>And you can already have multiple 'constructor-from-data' methods that way, like dict already has: dict.fromkeys().<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Thomas Wouters <<a href="mailto:thomas@python.org">
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