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+## Copyright (C) 2016 Colin B. Macdonald
+##
+## This file is part of Pytave
+##
+## Pytave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
+## by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License,
+## or (at your option) any later version.
+##
+## This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty
+## of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See
+## the GNU General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
+## License along with this software; see the file COPYING.
+## If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @documentencoding UTF-8
+## @defmethod @@pyobject cell (@var{x})
+## Convert an iterable Python object to a cell array.
+##
+## For example, by default Python lists are not automatically
+## converted into native Octave objects:
+## @example
+## @group
+## L = pyeval ("[10, 20, 'hello']")
+##   @result{} L = [pyobject ...]
+##
+##       [10, 20, 'hello']
+## @end group
+## @end example
+##
+## However, we can convert the list to a cell array:
+## @example
+## @group
+## C = cell (L)
+##   @result{} C =
+##     @{
+##       [1,1] =  10
+##       [1,2] =  20
+##       [1,3] = hello
+##     @}
+## @end group
+## @end example
+##
+## The conversion is not recursive, in the following sense:
+## @example
+## @group
+## L = pyeval ("[10, 20, [33, 44], 50]");
+## C = cell (L)
+##   @result{} C =
+##     @{
+##       [1,1] =  10
+##       [1,2] =  20
+##        ...  = [pyobject ...]
+##
+##                 [33, 44]
+##
+##       [1,4] =  50
+##     @}
+## @end group
+## @end example
+##
+## @seealso{cell2mat}
+## @end defmethod
+
+
+function c = cell (L)
+  ## XXX: better implementation available possible in C++?
+
+  c = {};
+  #c = cell (size (L));  # scary, b/c "size" calls "cell"
+
+  for i = 1:length (L)  # not numel
+    c{i} = subsref (L, struct ("type", "{}", "subs", {{i}}));
+  endfor
+endfunction
+
+
+%!test
+%! L = pyeval ("(1, 2, 3)");
+%! C = cell (L);
+%! assert (iscell (C))
+%! assert (C, {1, 2, 3})