Iteration of strings

[Terry Reedy]

"Bjarke Dahl Ebert" <bebert at tiscali.dk> wrote in message
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> > > Some function expects a list of strings,
> > Here is the root of your problem.  In a real sense, Python
functions
> > have no expectation as to type.
>
> Yes they do - the expectation is just not explicitly stated, and it
is often
> more "vague" than any simple formal type system could express.

I was trying to suggest the expection is in the mind of the writer
rather than the function itself, and that this is differenct, for
instance, from C where all inputs are more or less typed.

Terry J. Reedy