Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > #1 : should I start by checking that 'file' is indeed an instance of a
> > File object ?
>
> Unless you have a *very* compelling reason to do so (and I can't imagine
> one here), definitively, no. FWIW, it's pretty common in Python to pass
> file-like objects (StringIo comes to mind... but there are lots of other
> cases) to functions expecting a file object. And remember that Python
> doesn't relies on inheritence for typing. Also, for what you showed of
> your code, any iterable seems ok !-)
Well, not quite; string comes to mind as a common counter example.
Still, a usually better way to handle a string argument than raising an
exception is wrap it in StringIO:
from cStringIO import StringIO
def show_lines(text):
if isinstance(text,basestring):
text = StringIO(text)
for line in text:
# do something
George
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