where are isinstance types documented?

[Simon Brunning]

On 26 Sep 2006 02:59:07 -0700, codefire <tony.bedford at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using the isinstance built-in function. I've found the docs for it,
> but there are no docs on the supported types.
>
> For example isinstance(a, int) works fine but isinstance(s, string)
> doesn't - because 'string is not known'.

In this case, you want "str" rather than "string".

I can't find a single page with a list of built-in types (which
doesn't mean that one doesn't exist) but I think you can find them all
hanging off this page: <http://docs.python.org/lib/types.html>.

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Simon B,
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