On 19 Dec, 10:03, MarkE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, sets aren't sequences, as they have no order. Same as dicts, which > > aren't sequences either. > > Oops. I was under the misapprehension that they were sequences I realise now that this is even explicitly documented: http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq.html "There are six sequence types: strings, Unicode strings, lists, tuples, buffers, and xrange objects."
> Is there a short Pythonic way to determine whether an object is > iterable (iteratable ??) that I haven't thought of (getattr(obj, > '__iter__') ?). Would operator.isIterable() be at all a useful > addition ? And here I probably meant container (although the url says sequence when the article meant container, bit like me): http://docs.python.org/ref/sequence-types.html "Containers usually are sequences (such as lists or tuples) or mappings (like dictionaries), but can represent other containers as well" So same question, but perhaps "isContainer()" rather than "isIterable()" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
