enhanced map function

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 08:31:28 -0700, Patrick wrote:

> Steven,
> 
> Thanks for the info of itertools. It is a great start for me. Overall, I
> agree with you that it is really the user data needs to be sorted out.
> However, novice users may need help on certain patterns such as
> "a=[1,[2,3],4], b=[5,[6,7,8],9,10]". 


You have misunderstood me. I'm not saying that you should force the users 
to clean up the data (although of course you could do that), but that you 
should do so before handing it to map.

Rather than putting all the smarts into enhanced_map, and having it 
understand what to do with mismatched nested lists, deep nesting, 
integers where you would expect a list, etc., you should write another 
function that takes the user's data and adjusts it to some known, 
consistent format, and then pass that on to map. Don't have one function 
try to do too much.



-- 
Steven