On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Bhargav Kowshik <
bhargav.kows...@yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid> wrote:

> We could use what Anand talked about at Pycon India about handling the
> headers in first row of a CSV.In this scenario, instead of default for
> result being None and checking if None everytime, we could have the default
> value an empty list.
>
> def flat_it(values, result=list()):
>     for v in values:
>         if isinstance(v, list):
>             flat_it(v, result)
>         else:
>             result.append(v)
>     return result
>
> x = [[1, 2, [3, 4, 5, 6, 7]], 4]
> print x
> print flat_it(x)
>

Thats a pitfall! Try calling flat_it once again and see what you get.

Anand
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