Re: [Python-ideas] having a "iterable" built-in

Tarek Ziadé a écrit :

Hello

unless I missed it, I couldn't find a built-in to check if an object is iterable,

so I wrote this function :

def iterable(ob): try: iter(ob) except TypeError: return False return True

What about having such a built-in in Python ? (with the proper implementation if course)

Regards Tarek

Well, I guess the new abilities of abstract base classes and stuffs, in 2.6, allow this : http://docs.python.org/library/collections.html You should call something like isinstance(ovj, Iterable), which is less cute than isiterable(obj), but far more flexible ^^ Regards, Pascal