On Mon, Feb 24, 2020, 9:27 AM Rhodri James <rho...@kynesim.co.uk> wrote:
> On 23/02/2020 18:33, Steve Jorgensen wrote:
> > In many ways, a string is more useful to treat as a scalar than a
> collection, so drilling down into collections and ending up iterating
> individual characters as the leaves is often 1 step too far.
>
> I think the key word here should be "sometimes". A lot of the time I do
> treat strings as scalars (or more often, string.split() as a sequence of
> scalars), but sometimes a string absolutely is a sequence of characters,
> and I want to be able to treat it as such.
>
Both of these needs are straightforward to address with my suggested
AtomicString.
def descend(obj, ...):
if something:
descend(AtomicString(s) for s in obj.split())
elif otherthing:
descend(AtomicString (c) for c in obj)
else:
# non-string stuff, e.g. lists
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