Matthew Wilson wrote:
> I understand that idea of an object's __repr__ method is to return a
> string representation that can then be eval()'d back to life, but it
> seems to me that it doesn't always work.
>
> For example it doesn't work for instances of the object class:
>
> In [478]: eval(repr(
Dr. Pastor wrote:
> In the following code I would like to ascertain
> that x has/is a number. What the simplest TEST should be?
> (Could not find good example yet.)
> ---
> x=raw_input('\nType a number from 1 to 20')
> if TEST :
> Do_A
> else:
> Do_B
> ---
> Thanks for
Tal Einat wrote:
> Neil Cerutti wrote:
> > On 2006-09-01, Tal Einat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Tim Chase wrote:
> > >> I'm not sure if '__iter__' is the right thing to be looking
> > >> for, but it seems to work at least for lists, sets,
> > >> dictionarys (via their keys), etc. I would use
Tim Chase wrote:
> >>> def flatten(x):
> ... q = []
> ... for v in x:
> ... if hasattr(v, '__iter__'):
> ... q.extend(flatten(v))
> ... else:
> ... q.append(v)
> ... return q
> ...
Let's do some nitpicking on "pythonic" s
