"Basilisk96" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | On Jun 8, 11:54 am, "T. Crane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | You can also do this (if tuples are okay in your case): | | a = 1, | | The comma turns 'a' into a tuple (1,) which is both iterable and has a | length of 1. | | I have run into this issue before with a function that took a list of | filenames (strings), and needed to iterate over the list to operate on | the input files. For the case when the input would be a single file, I | needed to turn the input string into an iterable such that the 'for' | loop would not iterate on the filename characters (a rather | undesirable gotcha, you understand :-) ). So I solved my problem like | this: | | def loadfiles(filelist): | if not isinstance(filelist, list): | filelist = filelist,
Any what if 'filelist' is any iterable other than a string or list? Your code is broken, and unnecessarily so. So I would call the parameter 'files' and test for isinstance(files, str) #or basestring. And wrap if it is. | for filename in filelist: | f = open(filename,'r') | #do interesting stuff with file, etc... | | ..and it's been working very well. | | Cheers, | -Basilisk96 | | -- | http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list | -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
