> this appears to be a worrysome trend away from duck typing

Duck typing is a seriously bad idea, forced on Python by the now
obsolete split between built-in types and user-defined types.

> Are you going to propose similar
> changes for all standard de-facto interfaces, like sequences,
> mappings, files etc.?

Good idea.

Bill
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