On Apr 03, 2013, at 01:46 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: >It's a consistency-of-implementation issue. Where built-in types are >callable, they return concrete instances of themselves. This is true for >e.g. list, tuple, dict, bytes, str, and should also be true of int.
Well, I guess it's consistent for some of those built-in types <wink>. -Barry _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com