Newbie - How to iterate list or scalar ?

[Andy Dingley]

Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:

> there's really no reason to
> assume it should be a list - any iterable could - and IMHO should - be
> accepted... expect of course for strings (royal PITA case, duh).


> 2/ test for pluginVersionsNeeded.__iter__ (an attribute of most
> iterables except strings...):

strings don't have __iter__ ?!?!

I'm never going to get my head round this language   8-(

I can understand strings and tuples being iterable, if you take a
sufficiently first-class view of things, but why shouldn't everything
"that is iterable" support the function that makes iteration work?