"Carl Banks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What if you called the function like this: > > process_values(x.strip() for x in values_lst) > > Oops, now we've just gone through an expensive initialization and > finalization for nothing (since values_lst was empty). Maybe some > subtle bugs introduced. If we're lucky, the finalization step will > throw an exception.
You've got a function written to take a list arg and are passing it something other than a list. Why do you expect it to work? As soon as the function uses lst[3] for something, it will crash if you pass it a sequence like that. Your example is mainly an argument for static type checking. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
