On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Which primitive(s) should NOT have been expanded in your opinion? The "Point" > object? I agree, that's why MY implementation would call seq.flatten() on all > sub-sequences THEREBY allowing each subtype to define it's own flatten > behavior. Of course the default behavior of the SequenceBase#flatten would be > to flatten everything. > > However, ImmutableSequence Types would not flatten. In your example ["spam", > "ham"] would not be expanded to ['s', 'p', 'a', 'm', 'h', 'a', 'm']. psst: > strings and tuples are immutable!
So... flatten([None, 23, [1, 2, 3], (2, 3), ["spam", "ham"]]) would return [None, 23, 1, 2, 3, (2, 3), "spam", "ham"] ? I think that's even more unexpected. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
