How to determine an object is "scriptable"
Larry Bates
larry.bates at websafe.com
Thu Mar 30 09:20:53 EST 2006
abcd wrote:
> I recently came across a problem where I saw this error:
> "TypeError: unsubscriptable object"
>
> How can I determine if an object is "scriptable" or "unscriptable"?
>
Simplest answer is to use isinstance to see if it is a string, list,
or tuple:
if isinstance(variable, (str, list, tuple)):
.
.
.
Now the problem is that this answer doesn't address the problem.
Your code is attempting to do something to the wrong type of
object/variable which is a logic problem.
-Larry Bates
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