In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "adam carr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I call a function get_items() which returns a list of items. > However, in some cases, it returns just one item. > It returns the item as an object though, not as a list containing one object. > In other cases it simply returns None. Almost certainly what you need to do is change the function to always return a list. Might be a list of one object. Might be an empty list. But always a list. Keep the interface simple and obvious and you avoid complexities such as the one you're facing now. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list