Handle either a list or single integer as an argument

Question

A function should select rows in a table based on the row name (column 2 in this case). It should be able to take either a single name or a list of names as arguments and ha

Answer 1

I'd go along with Sharkey's version, but use a bit more duck typing:

def select_rows(to_select):
    try:
        len(to_select)
    except TypeError:
        to_select = [to_select]

    for row in range(0, table.numRows()):
        if _table.item(row, 1).text() in to_select:
            table.selectRow(row)

This has the benefit of working with any object that supports the in operator. Also, the previous version, if given a tuple or some other sequence, would just wrap it in a list. The downside is that there is some performance penalty for using exception handling.