determining type

[Bjorn Pettersen]

How about the pprint module?

-- bjorn

sp00fD wrote:
> 
> I'm writing a program in which I've got a couple of dictionaries that
> I'd like to output to a file, but I'd like it to be "pretty". I'm
> trying to write a function to format the dictionary so that when I
> print it, rather than looking like {'foo' : 'bar', 'who' : 'what'}, it
> looks like
> {
> 'foo' : 'bar',
> 'who' : 'what',
> }
> The way that I'm trying to do this is to create a string and loop
> through the dict.keys(), appending to the string. The problem is that
> if it's not a string, but an integer (the key or value) I don't want it
> quoted obviously (I'm adding the quotes manually \"%s\").
> How do I determine if it's a string or int. I've tried:
> if type(key) == "<type \'string\'>":
> but that doesn't seem to work. How do I do this?
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