[Tutor] small problem with lists/tuples

[Thomi Richards]

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Hi all,

Here's a small problem I'm trying to nut out:

I have a function which returns some data in different forms. for example:

sometimes, it will return:

['data']

or:

[['data']]

or even:

([['data']])

what I'm trying to do, is "unpack" the duples, until i get to the actual data 
inside. Originally, i thought I could do it something like this:

while 1:
	if (len(data) > 1):
		data = data[0]
	else:
		break

however, it turns out that the actual data itself could be a single character 
long. I guess I could use the type() builtin function, but I thought aybe 
there was a cleaner/nicer way to do this? any ideas?

Thanks,

- -- 
Thomi Richards,
http://once.sourceforge.net/


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