How to check if an object is iterable in Python? [duplicate]

Answer 1

You don't "check". You assume.

try:
   for var in some_possibly_iterable_object:
       # the real work.
except TypeError:
   # some_possibly_iterable_object was not actually iterable
   # some other real work for non-iterable objects.

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Answer 2

Try this code

def isiterable(p_object):
    try:
        it = iter(p_object)
    except TypeError: 
        return False
    return True

Answer 3

You can check for this using isinstance and collections.Iterable

>>> from collections.abc import Iterable # for python >= 3.6
>>> l = [1, 2, 3, 4]
>>> isinstance(l, Iterable)
True

Note: Using or importing the ABCs from 'collections' instead of from 'collections.abc' is deprecated since Python 3.3, and in 3.9 it will stop working.