On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:39:49 +0100, Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Jean-Paul Calderone a écrit :
>> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:17:11 +0100, Bruno Desthuilliers
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> And what if it's a unicode string ?
>>> The correct idiom here is:
>>> if isinstance(year, basestring):
>>>
>>>> year,month,day=map(int,string.split(year,'-'))
>>> year, month, day = map(int, year.split('-'))
>>
>> And what if it's another kind of string?
>
>One that doesn't inherit from basestring ?
>
>> The correct idiom is:
>>
>> try:
>> parts = year.split('-')
>> except AttributeError:
>> # Handle int case
>> else:
>> year, month, day = map(int, parts)
>>
>>>
>>>> if year < 100:
>>>> year += 2000
>>>> return date.__new__(cls,year,month,day)
>>>>
>
>And what if it's an object that has nothing to do with a string but
>happens to have a split() method ?-)
>
>>> (snip)
>
>Jean-Paul, you're of course right from a theoretical POV. Practically
>speaking, chances that such a method will ever be fed with a string-like
>object not deriving from basestring are IMVHO *very* low. While I
>usually raise a big warning flag when I spot a test against
>isinstance(), I'd say this is an example of the few cases where it's ok.
> YMMV of course...
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-February/051717.html
Jean-Paul
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