def isIterable( obj ):
    if isinstance(obj,basestring): return False
    elif isinstance(obj,ProxyUnicode): return False
    try:
        iter(obj)
    except TypeError: return False
    else: return True

# consider only ints and floats numeric
Test to ensure that the named database is absent.
dataset/ETHPy150Open CountZer0/PipelineConstructionSet/python/maya/site-packages/pymel-1.0.3/pymel/util/arguments.py/isIterable--crossover with--dataset/ETHPy150Open saltstack/salt/tests/unit/states/postgres_database_test.py/PostgresDatabaseTestCase.test_absent