[Python-Dev] quick poll: could int, str, tuple etc. become type objects?

[Aahz Maruch]

I'm +1 on the general concept; I think it will make explaining Python
easier in the long run.  I'm not competent to vote on the details, but
I'll complain if something seems too confused to me.

Currently in the Decimal class I'm working on, I can take any of the
following types in the constructor: Decimal, tuple, string, int, float.
I'm wondering whether that approach makes sense, that any "compatible"
type should be accepted in an explicit constructor.  So for your
question about dict(), perhaps any sequence/iterator type that returns
2-element sequences would be be accepted.
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