Multiple arguments: how do you handle them 'nicely'?

[Erik Max Francis]

Erik Max Francis wrote:

> Why not something like:
> 
>         def f(*args):
>             if len(args) == 1:
>                 args = args[0]

Err, that's obviously wrong.  I obviously meant

	      if len(args) == 1 and \
                 type(args[0]) in (types.ListType, types.TupleType):
	           ...

Although obviously that doesn't take into account arbitrary sequences. 
In that case a reasonable test might be to try to do len(args[0]), catch
the error if it's not a sequence type, and go from there.

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