compare types?

[Erik Max Francis]

Dan Bishop wrote:

> Of course you can't.  type doesn't return a string.

And, through the wonders of Python's interactivity, here's a great way
to tell (for types in general, not just DateTime types):

>>> s = "I'm a string"
>>> type(s)
<type 'str'>
>>> t = type(s)
>>> type(t)
<type 'type'>

"Oh," one should realize at this point, "obviously that's not just some
string, because then its type would have been a string."

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