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Re: Chanelling Guido - dict subclasses

Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Date 2014-01-15 08:51 -0800
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Subject Re: Chanelling Guido - dict subclasses
From John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net>

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On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 12:40:33 AM UTC-8, Peter Otten wrote:
> Personally I feel dirty whenever I write Python code that defeats duck-
> typing -- so I would not /recommend/ any isinstance() check.

While I am inclined to agree, I have yet to see a solution to the problem of flattening nested lists/tuples which avoids isinstance().  If anyone has written one, I would like to see it, and consider its merits.

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Chanelling Guido - dict subclasses Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-01-15 01:27 +0000
  Re: Chanelling Guido - dict subclasses Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-01-14 21:04 -0500
  Re: Chanelling Guido - dict subclasses Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-01-14 22:48 -0500
  Re: Chanelling Guido - dict subclasses F <f@hop2it.be> - 2014-01-15 07:00 +0000
  Re: Chanelling Guido - dict subclasses Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-01-15 09:40 +0100
    Re: Chanelling Guido - dict subclasses John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2014-01-15 08:51 -0800
      Re: Chanelling Guido - dict subclasses Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-01-15 19:35 +0100
      Re: Chanelling Guido - dict subclasses Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2014-01-15 22:30 -0800
  Re: Chanelling Guido - dict subclasses Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-15 09:10 +0000
  Re: Chanelling Guido - dict subclasses Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-01-15 05:03 -0600
  Re: Chanelling Guido - dict subclasses Daniel da Silva <var.mail.daniel@gmail.com> - 2014-01-15 19:50 -0500
    Re: Chanelling Guido - dict subclasses Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-01-16 17:17 +1300

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