[Python-Dev] Clean way in python to test for None, empty, scalar, and list/ndarray? A prayer to the gods of Python

[Tres Seaver]

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On 06/15/2013 09:15 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:
> I never want to iterate, but I love slice syntax and indexing. Don't 
> think you can have that w/o being able to loop over it can you? Maybe 
> I'm just thinking slow since I just woke up.

You could if '__iter__' raised an error ('NotIterable', maybe) which
defeated the '__getitem__'/'__len__'-based fallback.


Tres.
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