Implicit lists

[Alex Martelli]

holger krekel wrote:
   ...
> hmmm. Maybe with a general-purpose
> 
>     def elems(*args):
>         l = []
>         for arg in args:
>             try: l.extend(arg)
>             except TypeError: l.append(arg)
>         return l

Alas, doesn't meet specs...:

[alex at lancelot mydata]$ python2.2
Python 2.2.2 (#1, Oct 24 2002, 11:43:01)
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (Mandrake Linux 8.2 2.96-0.76mdk)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> a=[]
>>> a.extend('ciao')
>>> a
['c', 'i', 'a', 'o']
>>>

basically, l.extend now accepts all iterables.  Handy in
most cases, but hardly ever what one wants for strings.


Alex