Initializing a list with copies

[Ralf Juengling]

Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> writes:

> Thomas Heller wrote:
> 
> Classes (new-style) and built-in types, as I said.  Maybe I wasn't
> as clear as needed to express once again the distinction between
> levels -- instances of a metaclass are types (classes), so thanks
> for pointing it out.
> 
> > Not too useful, it seems.

Implementing factory functions as iterables seems useful to me. Their
iterators should produce "default instances" of what the factory produces.
The longer I think about it, the more I like the 

l = take(n, int)

idea. It is quite intuitive, read "give me n of the things int() produces".

As Alex pointed out, it as easy to make all "new-style" types iterable for
the Python developers -- one just would have to small methods to the meta- 
type 'type'...

Thanks for your comments,
Ralf