From d74bf073434ee558923824856cfad1a0c39bff8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Vierra <codewarrior@hawaii.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:21:44 -1000
Subject: [PATCH] TAG_Compound automatically wraps lists, tuples, and strings

---
 nbt.py | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/nbt.py b/nbt.py
index 50fd22e..0de2363 100644
--- a/nbt.py
+++ b/nbt.py
@@ -343,6 +343,13 @@ class TAG_Compound(TAG_Value, collections.MutableMapping):
 
 
     def __setitem__(self, k, v):
+        """Automatically wraps lists and tuples in a TAG_List, and wraps strings
+        and unicodes in a TAG_String."""
+        if isinstance(v, (list, tuple)):
+            v = TAG_List(v)
+        elif isinstance(v, basestring):
+            v = TAG_String(v)
+
         if not (v.__class__ in tag_handlers.values()): raise TypeError("Invalid type %s for TAG_Compound" % (v.__class__))
         """remove any items already named "k".    """
         olditems = filter(lambda x:x.name == k, self.value)