[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: python and typeforms
- From: Christian Egli <christian.egli@xxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:56:46 +0100
Michael Whapples <mwhapples@xxxxxxx> writes:
> As the issue with using typeforms has only been raised recently I
> assume not many are even using typeforms, so is backwards
> compatibility a concern?
I would assume that there are hardly any users that use the typeform
currently, so I wouldn't worry about it.
> Also there was the suggestion of people possibly not handing in a
> list, which raises its own issues. The docs actually say list, but
> currently a tuple would be accepted fine.
I would make sure that you handle the case when a tuple is passed in
e.g. the way you suggest below.
> I personally quite like the idea of, if you want typeform data back
> then use a list, if you use a tuple then typeform data won't be
> modified (it fits with python's mutable and immutable objects).
Thanks
Christian
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