[Python-Dev] Clean way in python to test for None, empty, scalar, and list/ndarray? A prayer to the gods of Python (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sat Jun 15 22:11:59 CEST 2013

On 6/15/2013 8:53 AM, Tres Seaver wrote:

In fifteen years of Python programming, I have literally never wanted to iterate over 'str' (or now 'bytes').

If so, it is because you have always been able to use pre-written methods and functions that internally do the iteration for you.

I've always considered the fact that Python made them iterable by default (rather than e.g. defining a method / property to get to an iterable "view" on the underlying string)

.iter is that method.

But this is off-topic for pydev.

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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