Type of regular expression

[Joakim Hove]

Hello,

I wondered how I could test wether an argument was of type compiled
regexp:

from types import *

def do_something(arg):
   if type(arg) is StringType:
      print "%s is a string" % arg
   elsif type(arg) is RegexpType:       # <- This constant does not
                                        #    exist, it is only
                                        #    something I invented.
      print "%s is a regexp" % arg
   else
      sys.exit("Argument must be *either* string or regular expression")

which is then called as:

do_something("a string")
do_something(re.compile("^F")





Regards

Joakim

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