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Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered?

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Date 2014-09-18 22:10 +1000
Subject Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered?
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.14101.1411042251.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 9:55 PM, cool-RR <ram.rachum@gmail.com> wrote:
> My function gets an iterable of an unknown type. I want to check whether it's ordered. I could check whether it's a `set` or `frozenset`, which would cover many cases, but I wonder if I can do better. Is there a nicer way to check whether an iterable is ordered or not?
>

An iterable is always ordered. You call next() and you get the next
value. Are you asking if there's a way to find out if the order
matters? Not easily. What's your use-case? Why do you need to know?

Also, you're still using Google Groups, which means your formatting is
b0rked. Please can you use something better, or else look into fixing
this.

ChrisA

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Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered? cool-RR <ram.rachum@gmail.com> - 2014-09-18 04:55 -0700
  Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-18 22:10 +1000
    Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-09-18 08:58 -0400
      Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-18 23:33 +1000
        Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-09-18 19:52 -0400
          Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-19 12:45 +1000
          Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-09-19 18:02 -0400
          Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-20 15:01 +1000
      Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-09-18 09:46 -0400
      Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-09-18 09:32 -0500
      Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-19 15:15 +1000
        Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-19 15:40 +1000
          Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-19 20:59 +1000
            Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-19 21:19 +1000
              Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-19 21:58 +1000
                Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-19 22:06 +1000
            Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-19 21:25 +1000
              Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-19 21:46 +1000
                Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-19 21:56 +1000
                Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered? alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-09-19 12:26 +0000
                Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-19 22:36 +1000
  Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-19 15:04 +1000

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