How to tell the difference between string and list

[Wolfram Kraus]

Heyho!

Jan Kokoska wrote:
[...]
> 
> But unfortunately in Zope PythonScripts, where I need to use this, one
> is not supposed to use underscore-prefixed methods as I just found out. 
In Zope you can use same_type():
same_type(a, '')
same_type(a, [])
(See Zope Book -> Advanced Zope Scripting -> Built-in Functions)

> I figure this is a question general enough to post here (and not on the
> Zope list), any clues?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Jan Kokoska
> 
HTH,
Wolfram