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Message 122907 - Python tracker

> > len(data) will raise anyway.
> 
> No, it won't, if the iterable happens to be a sequence.

Well, it seems the patch is confused between iterable and iterator. Only
iterators have a __next__, but they usually don't have a __len__.

The patch should really check for iterables, so it should use:

    if isinstance(data, collections.Iterable)
        raise ValueError#etc.