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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•3 months agoAn iterable is just something that can be iterated over, like range(10), or [1, 2, 3]. A sequence on the other hand is a Collection that is reversible. https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.abc.html#collections-abstract-base-classes
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•3 months agoI know what an iterable is. But I am talking about Type[Iterable], which iirc does not obey falsey eval when empty.
An iterable is just something that can be iterated over, like
range(10)
, or[1, 2, 3]
.A sequence on the other hand is a Collection that is reversible.
https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.abc.html#collections-abstract-base-classes
I know what an iterable is. But I am talking about
Type[Iterable]
, which iirc does not obey falsey eval when empty.