interating over single element array

[Terry Reedy]

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| "Terry Reedy" <tjre... at udel.edu> wrote:
| > Any what if 'filelist' is any iterable other than a string or list? 
Your
| > code is broken, and unnecessarily so.  So I would call the parameter
| > 'files' and test for isinstance(files, str) #or basestring.  And wrap 
if it
| > is.
|
| Can you give an example of such an iterable (other than a tuple)?

Tuple was the first thing I thought of, and one will break the list test. 
The next would be an iterator that walks a file hierarchy spitting out the 
names of non-directory files, or all files with a certain extension, or all 
files with a certain owner, or timestamp characteristic.

| I'd certainly like to fix my 'fix' to work for a more general case.

As I said, I think it as simple as changing 'not list' to 'is string'.

tjr