I don't think that's going to happen. The similar builtin "callable" has been removed as of Python 3.0 in favour of isinstance(x, collections.Callable), or in versions < 2.6, hasattr(x, '__call__'), and the convention is similar for iterables ("isinstance(x, collections.Iterable)" or "hasattr(x, '__iter__')"). On 29 Apr 2009, at 14:47, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
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
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