On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:34:22 +0000, beginner wrote: > 2) How can I make the arguments less picky without writing a lot of > type conversion code? My function really needs a tuple as its > argument. For example, f( (1,2,3) ) would work. However, in order to > make it easy to use, I am thinking that it should be able to take a > list too. In other words, I want f( [1,2,3] ) to work also. I can > certainly check for the types in the code and deal with each > situation. But remember this is tedious to do in C. Is there any > better way to handle this?
The same way as you would do in Python: convert the argument into a tuple if you *really* need a tuple, or just use it as sequence or via iterator. And pay attention to errors of course. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list