is parameter an iterable?

[Steve Holden]

Micah Elliott wrote:
> On Nov 17, Duncan Booth wrote:
> 
>>Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>
>>>What should I do when I can't rely on functions that 
>>>don't exist in older versions of Python?
> 
> 
>>	sys.exit('Archaic Python not supported, please upgrade')
> 
> 
> +1 QOTW.
> 
> I recently gave up on trying to support (backport to) pre-2.2 in my
> projects.  It's been ~3 years since 2.2 released and that seem like a
> pretty reasonable support window.  I wound up with HACK and
> PORTABILITY comments all over the place and too much boilerplate.  Now
> I go with a startup check on sys.hexversion, and exit with similar
> wording.
> 
We could all take an example from Fredrik Lundh, who still regularly 
releases products that run on everything back to Python 1.5.2. Kudos to 
the effbot!

regards
  Steve
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