IsString

[Peter Decker]

On 12 Dec 2005 08:26:06 -0800, Tuvas <tuvas21 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I need a function that will tell if a given variable is a character or
> a number. Is there a way to do this? Thanks!

Use isinstance().

e.g.:

x = 7
isinstance(x, int)
-> True
isinstance(x, basestring)
-> False
x = "Hello"
isinstance(x, int)
-> False
isinstance(x, basestring)
-> True

I always use the basestring class for comparison, unless I need to
know whether or not the string is unicode.

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