Are any of these methods better than another for some reason?
On Sep 9, 2009, at 10:12 PM, Lie Ryan wrote:
kevin parks wrote:
This discussion is making my brain melt.
It is also showing how clever Bob was to do it the way he did... I
found a solution that i think works, and think has not yet been
suggested. I quarantined Bob's code into a black box ... and then
cast the output as a plain old fashioned python built in dictionary
on output. So now instead of printing the code Bob gave the
collection is returned by the func.
Then i can cast it as a dict and pick over that dictionary as i
wish. Here (as a bonus) I can transverse a range of keys that is
inclusive of all my keys and also use python's get() dict method to
also indicate index points (keys) that are empty.. which by default
returns 'None', which is also useful in this case to show me what
is missing. But I also have to do some type testing tomfoolery
since missing keys return None, which is a special type (and not a
list like the others)... I wanted the value list sorted so...
1
i did if type(item) == type(foo): .... not sure if there is a
betterererer way.
2
You can use:
alist = [1, 2, 3]
if isinstance(alist, list):
...
3
or alternatively check for the None case:
if alist is not None:
...
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