On 18 February 2013 12:03, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18 February 2013 11:47, John Reid <johnbaronr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm seeing this problem because of the following code in IPython: >> >> def canSequence(obj): >> if isinstance(obj, (list, tuple)): >> t = type(obj) >> return t([can(i) for i in obj]) >> else: >> return obj > > What is the point of the code above? If obj is a list or a tuple you > create a new list or tuple with the same data and then return it > otherwise you just return the object. What about:
Sorry, I didn't read this properly. I see that you want apply can() to all the elements. What is the reason for wanting to preserve the type of the sequence? Oscar -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
