By designing an API that doesn't require such overloading. <br><br>On Thursday, January 2, 2014, Alexander Heger  wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
>>    isinstance(x, Iterable) and not isinstance(x, str)<br>
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> If you find yourself typing that a lot I think you have a bigger problem though.<br>
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How do you replace this?<br>
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</blockquote><br><br>-- <br>--Guido van Rossum (on iPad)<br>