type-checking / type() function

[Ben S]

How can I implement rudimentary type-checking in the functions where I
need it? (Where user Python code passes parameters to my Python code,
for example.) I figure the type() function is what I need, but I can't
find much information on what exactly it returns, and 'InstanceType'
isn't specific enough. Is there a way of getting the class name from an
instance?

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