On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 4:50 AM, Dr. Phillip M. Feldman<pfeld...@verizon.net> wrote: > > Here's a simple-minded example: > > def dumbfunc(xs): > for x in xs: > print x > > This function works fine if xs is a list of floats, but not if it is single > float. It can be made to work as follows: > > def dumbfunc(xs): > if isinstance(xs,(int,float,complex)): xs= [xs] > for x in xs: > print x > > Having to put such extra logic into practically every function is one of the > annoying things about Python.
I don't have this problem - when I have a list of one element, that's what I use - a list with one element. I think things would get much simpler if you do such a conversion right at the Matlab-Python interface, rather than changing all kind of things in Python so that its types are more matlab-like. Just like you shouldn't program Python by simply translating Java or C into Python idiom, you also shouldn't program Python by trying to mimic Matlab. Each language has its own strengths and weaknesses, and moving things over too much in a simplistic fashion will usually mean that you get the weaknesses of both and the strengths of neither. -- André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list