Guillermo a écrit : > Wow, I think I'm gonna like this forum. Thank you all for the prompt > answers!
Welcome onboard !-) >> What makes you say you "need" to know this ? Except for a couple corner >> cases, you usually don't need to care about this. If you told us more >> about the actual problem (instead of asking about what you think is the >> solution), we might be of more help... > > Good point. > > I want to iterate recursively a dictionary whose elements might be > strings or nested tuples or dictionaries and then convert values to a > tagged format according to some rules. If you're absolutely definitively 101% sure that you'll never have anything else in your dict - IOW : this dict is an internal part of your module, produced by the module and consumed by the module -, then it *might* be one of the corner cases where testing type (either directly or - preferably - via isinstance) is the right thing to do. > d = {'a':"i'm a", 'b':(1,2,3),'c':{'a':"i'm a",'x':"something",'y': > ('a','b','c')}} > > I'm just designing the algorithm, but I think Python dictionaries can > hold any kind of sequence? Any Python object (which include classes, modules, functions etc) can be used as value. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list