type names versus types module

[Neal Norwitz]

On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 16:39:26 -0400, Donnal Walter wrote:

> I read in Guido's keynote address (slide 15 of 23) that we are now
> supposed to be using built-in type names instead of the types module.
> What is the preferred alternative syntax in Python 2.2 for the following
> snippet?
> 
>         ...
>         if type(content) is types.ListType:
>             print 'content is a list'
>         else:
>             print 'content is not a list'

Check out PEP 8, Programming Recommendations (near the end).

	http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0008.html

Guido prefers to use isinstance(content, list).

Neal