calling same function with different types in list

Question

I have a list of dictionaries where I am traversing them on by one. eg.

def same_func(messages):
    for message in messages:
        #message is a dict here.

Now I also want to call this function in a different scenario where my messages is a list of tuples (dict and flag)

so suppose I have made this list like -

messages.append((message, flag))

and now I want to call the same function like same_func(messages) Then how can I make the same_func generic for both scenarios.

Answer 1

why not add a if statement in your for loop that determines the type and then handles the dict or tuple based of that.

ie:

def same_func(messages):
    for message in messages:
        if type(message) is dict:
            # handle dict
        elif type(message) is tuple:
            # handle tuple
        else: 
            # do something else