How do I test if an object is a sequence?

[Aahz]

In article <vuea4oagaq1rd6 at news.supernews.com>,
John Roth <newsgroups at jhrothjr.com> wrote:
>"Max M" <maxm at mxm.dk> wrote in message
>news:3fe6fbb1$0$69983$edfadb0f at dread12.news.tele.dk...
>>
>> Is there a common idiom for testing if an object is a sequence?
>>
>> Both list, tuple and non-standard objects etc. I have Googled, but
>> didn't find a usable answer.
>
>The best way I know of is to check for the existance of either __iter__
>or __getitem__. This gets you roughly the same results as either the
>for statement or the iter() built-in function.

Not quite.  Try using ``for`` on a dict in Python 2.1 or earlier.
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