In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, abcd wrote: > Well my example function was simply taking a string and printing, but > most of my cases would be expecting a list, dictionary or some other > custom object. Still propose not to validate the type of data being > passed in?
Yes because usually you don't expect a list or dictionary but some object that *acts* like a list or dictionary. Or you even expect just some aspects of the type's behavior. For example that it is something you can iterate over. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list