On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 08:21:41AM -0600, John Roth wrote: > Unfortunately, I've seen that behavior a number of times: > no output is None, one output is the object, more than one > is a list of objects. That forces you to have checks for None > and list types all over the place.
maybe you can at least push this into a single convenience function...
def destupid(x, constructor=tuple, sequencetypes=(tuple, list)):
if x is None: return constructor()
if isinstance(x, sequencetypes): return x
return constructor((x,))
Jeff
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