Process Lists and Tuples for Automation | Dataford Interview Questions

Write a Python program to process lists and tuples for test automation.

Implement flatten_values(items) to recursively flatten a list or tuple containing integers, strings, lists, and tuples. Return a new list containing scalar values in their original left-to-right order. Empty containers contribute no values.

Contract

Input: a list or tuple with nesting depth at most 50.
Output: a flat list of scalar values.

Constraints

The top-level input is a list or tuple.
Elements are integers, strings, lists, or tuples.
The nesting depth is at most 50.
The input contains at most 1,000 scalar values.

Function Signature

def flatten_values(items):

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