testing for class of instance

Costas Menico costas at meezon.com
Sun May 13 00:00:27 EDT 2001


Albert Wagner <alwagner at tcac.net> wrote:

>How do I test for the class of an instance?  e.g., I used to test for a 
>dictionary:
>
>if type(aContainer) == type({}):
>
>However, this seems awkward and wasteful.


if isinstance(Foo,ClassFoo):

Costas



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