Question

I have some code that might return either a single int, or a list. When it returns an int, I need to convert it into a list that contains only the int.

I tried the following, but it doesn’t work:

newValue = list(retValue)

Apparently I can’t do list(some int) because ints are not iterable. Is there another way of doing this?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

define your own function:

 def mylist(x):
    if isinstance(x,(list,tuple)):
        return x
    else:
        return [x]


>>> mylist(5)
[5]
>>> mylist([10])
[10]