Run into an issue with passing in an object to a function, but its type is changeable? Maybe you usually have multiple returns from another function formatted in an array or list or tuple, but in some cases it’s just a single value. This is a quick little check/changer to make sure your object is iterable, or recast it into a list for a simple way to dodge the dreaded TypeError!
def make_iterable(item): '''Checks if item is iterable - if not it casts it into a list containing [item]. **********ARGUMENTS********** :param item: object to check **********RETURNS********** :return: item if item is iterable, or iterable version of item as [item] ''' try: iter(item) except TypeError: item = [item] return item