Home - News ( United States | United Kingdom | Italy | Germany ) - Football scores

Showing content from http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-January/012052.html below:

[Python-Dev] Is X a (sequence|mapping)?

• Previous message: [Python-Dev] Is X a (sequence|mapping)?
• Next message: [Python-Dev] Is X a (sequence|mapping)?
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

> i don't see an easy way to test if something supports one of these
> abstract interfaces in Python.

Why do you want to test for that? If you have an algorithm that only
operates on integer-indexed things, what can you do if the test fails?

So it is always better to just use the object in the algorithm, and
let it break with an exception if somebody passes a bad object.

Regards,
Martin

• Previous message: [Python-Dev] Is X a (sequence|mapping)?
• Next message: [Python-Dev] Is X a (sequence|mapping)?
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue

Search and Browse the WWW like it's 1997 | Search results from DuckDuckGo

HTML: 3.2 | Encoding: UTF-8 | Version: 0.7.4