Has apparent 2.4b1 bug been fixed? flatten in Lib\compiler\ast.py overloads 'list' name

[Bengt Richter]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 04:55:53 GMT, bokr at oz.net (Bengt Richter) wrote:

>What am I missing? (this is from 2.4b1, so probably it has been fixed?)
>
I googled and found a bug report, but initial report kind of passes on it
saying nested sequences will probably be tuples, so no panic (my paraphrased description).
So I guess it's in the mill. So never mind. I should have googled first ;-/

>
>def flatten(list):
>    l = []
>    for elt in list:
>               ^^^^--must be expecting list instance or other sequence
>        t = type(elt)
>        if t is tuple or t is list:
>                              ^^^^--looks like it expects to refer to the type, not the arg
>            for elt2 in flatten(elt):
>                l.append(elt2)
>        else:
>            l.append(elt)
>    return l
>

Regards,
Bengt Richter