how to test for nesting inlist

[Patricia Hawkins]

>>>>> "AM" == Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:

AM> <cpsoct at my-deja.com> wrote in message news:94h7pi$b86$1 at nnrp1.deja.com...
>> What are list comprehensions? I have looked and looked and looked in
>> books and on www.python.org and i see no mention of these. Is this

AM> A list comprehension is a syntax form such as:

AM>     [<expression> for <var> in <sequence>]

Like this:

def howDeep2(x):
	if type(x) != type([]):
		return 0
	return 1 + reduce(max, [howDeep(y) for y in x])

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Patricia J. Hawkins
Hawkins Internet Applications, LLC