At Dropbox I see a lot of people who want to start using type
annotations (PEP 484, mypy) struggle with the collection ABCs.
It's pretty common to want to support both sets and lists of values
Are these folks dissatisfied with a union type: ``Union[Sequence, Set]``?
(Another useful concept is "reiterable", i.e. an Iterable that can be
iterated over multiple times -- there's no ABC to indicate this
concept. Sequence, Set and Mapping all support this concept, Iterator
does not include it, but Iterable is wishy-washy.)
"Reiterable" seems to cause vocabulary confusion regularly on this list. It also has a common case for runtime checking:
if not isinstance(iterable, Reiterable):
iterable = list(iterable)
It's hard to think of a good name to describe ``Union[Iterable, Sized, Container]`` and it'd still have the confusion of whether it's re-iterable.
Does the concept of "reiterable" imply that an iteration does not mutate the object? If so, then if something is both Reiterable and Sized, it should also be a Container.