> It'll work on lists and tuples, for simple examples. But beware that > when you iterate through strings, the individual characters are also > strings, and this function will fail with an error like: > RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded
Oh, good catch Dave. So you'd want to add an explicit check for a string. And in fact you probably don't want to "flatten" a string into individual characters anyway! Alan G.
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