How to tell if function was passed a list or a string?

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rh0dium <steven.klass at gmail.com> wrote:
> [ ... ]

Since you have lots of answers to your real question:

>                    an.append(re.sub(",","", str(a)))

an.append(str(a).replace(",", ""))

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