On 7/31/06, David Zaret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have a dict with a particular key - the values for this key will be > None, one valid scalar, or a list: > > {mykey, None} > {mykey, "foo"} > {mykey, ["bar", "baz"]} > > let's ignore the None case - in the case of the one or many values, i > want to suck the values into a list. here's one way to do this: > > if mydict.has_key(mykey): > vals=[] > _v = mydict[mykey] > if isinstance(_v, types.ListType): > vals.extend(_v) > else: > vals.append(_v) > # now we can safely iterate through acts > for val in vals: > .....
how about: vals = [] for val in mydict.values(): try: vals.extend(val) except: vals.append(val) cheers, amit. -- ---- Amit Khemka -- onyomo.com Home Page: www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/~csd00377 Endless the world's turn, endless the sun's Spinning, Endless the quest; I turn again, back to my own beginning, And here, find rest. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list