testing for class of instance

[Stephen Hansen]

    You're right, I had a momentary lapse of memory when I was typing the
response in :)

--S

"Greg Ball" <greg.ball at earthling.net> wrote in message
news:3afe92e2.0 at cfanews.harvard.edu...
> Stephen Hansen <news at mynospam.org> wrote:
>       except (TypeError,AttributeError):
>                ...
>
> As written, you will catch only TypeError, and when
> you do, you'll assign the exception to local variable
> AttributeError.
>
> See  http://www.amk.ca/python/writing/warts.html
>
> --Greg Ball
>