detecting variable types

[SBrunning at trisystems.co.uk]

> From: Jay [mailto:wjjeonk at hotmail.com]
> 
> I'm sure this is a really dumb question, but how do you 
> detect a variable
> type in Python?
> 
> For example, I want to know if the variable "a" is a list of 
> strings or a
> single string. How do I do this?

Plenty of discussion here:
<http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/archives/001349.html>.

Cheers,
Simon B.
simon at brunningonline.net
http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ 




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