Newbi Q: Recursively reverse lists but NOT strings?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:47:30 +0200, Francesco Guerrieri wrote:

>> def myreversed(sequence):
>>     if isinstance(sequence, basestring):
>>         return type(sequence)().join(reversed(sequence))
>>     else:
>>         return type(sequence)(reversed(sequence))
>>
>> (in fact, that's so simple I wonder why the built-in reversed() doesn't
>> do that).
> 
> simple:
> In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.

What ambiguity? What guess? The above is completely unambiguous: it 
returns a sequence of the same type as the input. It doesn't support 
xrange objects, but that's not really a great loss.



-- 
Steven.