Converting a list to a tuple appears to have an optimisation that is wrong in the presence of subclassing to override __iter__. It ignores the user defined iter and uses the normal list one. I've attached a file with a test case to demonstrate this.

I've verified this on both python 2.7 and python 3.4. It's presumably also the case on everything in between.

This was found because it caused a bug with a type that pytz uses, which lazily populates the list on iteration: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pytz/+bug/1435617