New submission from Irit Katriel <[email protected]>:
dict is not a function, it's a class and the purpose of a dict() call is to
create a new instance of that class.
The change you are proposing is also breaking for iterators:
>>> class Pairs(list): pass
...
>>> pairs = Pairs([('a', 1), ('b', 2)])
>>> pairs.__dict__
{}
>>> dict(pairs)
{'a': 1, 'b': 2}
A change of this magnitude will need to be discussed on python-ideas and will
require a PEP explaining why the benefits of the change outweigh its costs. I
very much doubt that they do.
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