Thanks for the explanation!

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 5:29 PM, Marcus Müller <marcus.muel...@ettus.com>
wrote:

> That's a long story. Essentially, a list is a pair of the first element
> and a pair of a second element and a pair of the third element and a pair
> of …
>
> Cheers,
> Marcus
>
> On 22.11.2016 23:18, Dave NotTelling wrote:
>
> I ask because it feels like a bug.  Things like ((a . b), (c . d), (e .
> f)) are definitely not pairs (assuming a pair is 2 elements) and (in my
> opinion) should not return true for pmt.is_pair().
>
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 5:12 PM, Dave NotTelling <dmp250...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Martin,
>>
>>      Was that done on purpose?
>>
>>      Thank you for the link!  I hadn't thought about checking that way.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -Dave
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Martin Braun <martin.br...@ettus.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dave,
>>>
>>> pairs pass is_dict(), which is possibly the root cause here. See also:
>>> https://github.com/gnuradio/gnuradio/blob/31b28f0cf4694378b2
>>> 6617616d08b4082668962f/gr-uhd/lib/usrp_block_impl.cc#L487-L494
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> M
>>>
>>> On 11/22/2016 01:47 PM, Dave NotTelling wrote:
>>> > I noticed today that the is_dict and is_pair checks are not appearing
>>> to
>>> > work properly.  Here is an example that shows the issue:
>>> >
>>> > [code]
>>> >
>>> > #!/usr/bin/python
>>> >
>>> > import pmt
>>> >
>>> > def print_pmt(dictVar):
>>> >     print 'isPair:%05s, isDict:%05s, isTuple:%05s  =>  %s' %
>>> > (pmt.is_pair(dictVar), pmt.is_dict(dictVar), pmt.is_tuple(dictVar),
>>> dictVar)
>>> >
>>> > print 'DICT'
>>> >
>>> > d = pmt.make_dict()
>>> > print_pmt(d)
>>> >
>>> > d = pmt.dict_add(d, pmt.intern('a'), pmt.intern('b'))
>>> > print_pmt(d)
>>> >
>>> > d = pmt.dict_add(d, pmt.intern('c'), pmt.intern('d'))
>>> > print_pmt(d)
>>> >
>>> > d = pmt.dict_add(d, pmt.intern('e'), pmt.intern('f'))
>>> > print_pmt(d)
>>> >
>>> > print '\nCONS'
>>> >
>>> > p = pmt.cons(pmt.make_dict(), pmt.make_u8vector(0,0))
>>> > print_pmt(p)
>>> >
>>> > [/code]
>>> >
>>> > Run that and you'll see what I consider strange behavior.  The values
>>> of
>>> > is_pair and is_dict to not match what is expected.  Is that by design?
>>> > If so, why?
>>> >
>>> > ((a . b)) is not a pair...  It's a single element dictionary
>>> > ((c . d) (a . b)) i can sorta see this being a pair, but it wasn't
>>> > created that way
>>> > ((e . f) (c . d) (a . b)) definitely not a pair as it's 3 elements
>>> >
>>> > (() . #[]) don't dictionaries have to be nested?
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Thanks!
>>> >
>>> >
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