[Python-3000] Making strings non-iterable

[Aahz]

On Sun, Apr 16, 2006, Tim Peters wrote:
>
> Now that I think of it, though, I've been burned perhaps twice in my
> total Python life by recursing on a string when I didn't intend to. 
> Apart from flatten()-ish functions, I'm not sure I've written anything
> vulnerable to that.

I've been burned a few times, but only because I was expecting a list
input and got a string.  I think that improving code analysis tools and
making better use of unit tests is the proper cure for that.
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