robots.sitemaps is a map object instead of a list

[gk1544]

type(robots.sitemaps) is <class 'map'> instead of list (as described in README).

Why is that so?

import reppy

url = 'http://www.google.com/'
robots_url = reppy.Robots.robots_url(url)
robots = reppy.Robots.fetch(robots_url)
sitemaps = robots.sitemaps
print(type(sitemaps))
# <class 'map'>

[dlecocq]

Because we wrote it mostly for python 2.7, where map returns a list. In python 3, however, map returns an iterable map object (https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#map). If you need a list, you could just pass the result to list.

As far as the type of sitemaps, I'd be content if it were explicitly made a list, though.

[wumpus]

FYI the change of map() to not be a list was in python 3.6 and later.