On Feb 6, 10:23 pm, Rhamphoryncus <rha...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 5, 1:16 pm, Michele Simionato <michele.simion...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Feb 5, 7:24 pm, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote: > > > > In article > > > <a22c77c4-a812-4e42-8972-6f3eedf72...@l33g2000pri.googlegroups.com>, > > > Michele Simionato <michele.simion...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > >Looks fine to me. In some situations you may also use hasattr(el, > > > >'__iter__') instead of isinstance(el, list) (it depends if you want to > > > >flatten generic iterables or only lists). > > > > Of course, once you do that, you need to special-case strings... > > > Strings are iterable but have no __iter__ method, which is fine in > > this context, since I would say 99.9% of times one wants to treat them > > as atomic objects, so no need to special case. > > Don't worry, that little oddity was fixed for you:
Acc! I have a few places in my code with checks of the kind ``hasattr(x, '__iter__')`` and I guess those spots will be tricky when converting to Python 3. I guess 2to3 cannot help either :-( -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
