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

[Adam Atlas]

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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