Lists and Tuples

David Eppstein eppstein at ics.uci.edu
Fri Dec 5 12:14:06 EST 2003


In article <roy-9E698D.11180005122003 at reader2.panix.com>,
 Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:

> The new isinstance() function can take a tuple (but not a list) as its 
> second argument.  Why?  Logically, it should take any sequence.

What should it do if the second argument is a type object that is also 
iterable?

E.g. suppose that iter(bool) produced the sequence True, False. ...

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David Eppstein                      http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science




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