Thank you guys.
My function should multiply every element of a list, for example "something" and "something" can be an integer or another list. If it deals with integer than it is ok, but If it deals with list than it become false for example list*2 = listlist, and what I really want is to mutlitply its member. That's why I need to know the type of my data in "something".
As stated by another comment, I would do something like :
def multiply(object, factor):
try:
return [ multiply(i,factor) for i in object ]
except TypeError:
return object*factorThis function will, recursively multiply a nested list of numbers by "factor" ...
By the way I am new in python, I heard that it has a MatLab capabilities, How good is that? Since It would be very nice when we can do what MatLab do in python.....
I think you are referring to the Numeric or the numarray modules. They offer matric computations close to chat Matlab offers. "numarray" is the newer version of "Numeric", but in case of small matrix, it performs slower (for various reasons). Then, you can find lots of information on the net concerning these two modules.
Sincerely Yours, pujo
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