Arg. Silly question!

[Courageous]

Okay, in all the documentation, I can't find the way that
one goes about determining an object's type/ancestry.

I have two different types of things that I want to do:

1. Figure out if an object is inherited from a particular
   class. 

3. Figure out if an object is an instance of a particular
   class.

Arg. I'm getting a headache. :)

(And I ordered my copy of Guido's Essential Python 2 days
 ago, but don't have it yet).






C/