[Python-ideas] An ABC representing "Iterable, Sized, Container"

[Michael Selik]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016, 2:18 PM Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <
chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> The problem here is that often folks want to NOT allow single strings,
> but rather want only an iterable of strings.
>

The module author might, but sometimes the user might want to use a str as
an iterable of 1-len strs. It bugs me that Pandas forces me to wrap a str
of indices in a list constructor before passing it into the DataFrame
constructor.

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