Re: [Tutor] list objects are unhashable

[Alan Gauld]

"Kent Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote 
           if isinstance(x, list):
               for item in x:
                   x = item

This just assigns x to the last element of the list

Oops, yes, I said the first but in fact reassigning x does 
not stop the loop, it seems the loop works on a local 
copy of the original reference.

Alan G

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