[Python-ideas] Pre-PEP 2nd draft: adding a statistics module to Python

[Guido van Rossum]

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On 09/08/13 00:58, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> How do you plan to distinguish between lists and iterators?

> I haven't yet decided between these two snippets:
>
> # option 1
> if data is iter(data):
>     data = list(data)
>
> # option 2
> if not isinstance(data, collections.Sequence):
>     data = list(data)
>
> although I'm currently leaning towards option 1.

#1 sounds fine.

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