Checking the type

[Moshe Zadka]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:05:10 +0300 (MSK), Oleg Broytmann <phd at phd.pp.ru> wrote:

>    Yes, builtin fuction type(x):
> 
> if type(x) <> type([]):
>    print "not list!"

Or even better, isinstance

if not isinstance(x, types.ListType):
	print "not list!"

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