On Wed, May 6, 2020, 9:46 PM Chris Angelico
>> zip.shortest(...) # same as zip(...) / zip.longest(...) / zip.checksame(...)
> If it's a very common pattern, do you know of any in the standard library beyond the one I mentioned? Not about bikeshedding the spelling of the different constructors, but just:
>
> 1. A callable;
> 2. That has one or more functions attached to perform some variation on what that callable itself does.
The first one that comes to mind is the datetime types, which have from* methods that construct them from timestamps, strings, etc.
This is a very good example. chain.from_iterator() feels a little weak to me since there's just the one alternate constructor, whereas zip would hypothetically have several.
But I actual do use both 'datetime(...)' and 'datetime.fromfoo(...)' in practice. I had forgotten those.
I don't prefer this API, but I don't hate it given the examples.