On Feb 7, 1:39 pm, <mma...@gmx.net> wrote: > On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 01:06:06 -0800 (PST) > Rhamphoryncus <rha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > What usecase do you have for such inconsistently structured data? > > I have a similar use case in pyspread, which is a Python spreadsheet > that employs numpy object arrays. Since the Python objects in the numpy > arrays are derived from user input, they can be anything, including > nested lists as well as strings, etc. > > Since I consider my work-around that treats strings as a special case a > rather ugly hack, I would welcome a robust, generic approach to the > OP's problem.
Can you explain this in a little more detail? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
