Comparing variable types

[Peter Hansen]

Emile van Sebille wrote:
> 
> "Kill Bill" <bill at kill.com> wrote in message
> news:bnfbuj$10f3di$1 at ID-198839.news.uni-berlin.de...
> > type(i) == "<type 'float'>"
> 
> This compares the current type of i to type("string"), which is <type
> 'str'>.

(Minor correction) Actually it compares it to the actual string
containing the letters "<type 'float'>", which is of course going
to get one nowhere.

The above would have worked if the OP had used 

       repr(type(i)) == "<type 'float'>"

but that is the absolute worst way of doing this...

-Peter