How to get the type of an object?

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You can use the type() function:

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>>> s='hello'
>>> type(s)
<type 'str'>
>>> type(s)==str
True
>>> n=1
>>> type(n)
<type 'int'>
>>> type(n)==int
True
###

You can do the same with list, too. So you could write,

if type(x)==list:
    #do list action

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