Ah, found the right solution! Thanks to Fredrik Lundh for so gently pointing me at this post. Just one question, if I may:-
Alex Martelli wrote: > It's not hard...: > > try: > _it = iter(whatever) > except TypeError: > print 'non-iterable' > else: > for i in _it: # etc, etc Alas and alack, I have to write code which is backwards compatible with older versions of Python: Python 2.1.1 (#1, Aug 25 2001, 04:19:08) [GCC 3.0.1] on sunos5 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> iter Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? NameError: name 'iter' is not defined What should I do when I can't rely on functions that don't exist in older versions of Python? -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
