[Python-3000] Type Coersion Syntax

[Thomas Wouters]

On 7/6/06, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>
>
>  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.
>

And you can already have multiple 'constructor-from-data' methods that way,
like dict already has: dict.fromkeys().

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Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org>

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