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Author Zero
Recipients Zero, docs@python, r.david.murray, terry.reedy
Date 2013-08-01.19:05:23
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If my program needed to know if an object is iterable, it would be tempting to define and call the following function instead of using collections.abc.Iterable:

    def iterable(obj):
        try:
            iter(obj)
        except TypeError:
            return False
        return True

Something tells me that is not what the author of collections.abc.Iterable intended.
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Date User Action Args
2013-08-01 19:05:24Zerosetrecipients: + Zero, terry.reedy, r.david.murray, docs@python
2013-08-01 19:05:24Zerosetmessageid: <1375383924.01.0.00621420986944.issue18558@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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