class or class-instance ?

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Stef Mientki schrieb:
> hello,
> 
> I've a procedure (or in fact a class method) that should be callable with
> either a class
>  (in which case the procedure should create an instance)
> or with an instance of that class
> as the parameter.
> 
>    def  somefunction ( self, parameter ) :
>        if parameter is a class, create an instance of that class
>        else do nothing
> 
> 
> 
> now I should be able to call the above procedure in either of the 
> following ways:
>  
>    somefunction (  someclass  )
> 
> or
> 
>    somefunction ( someclass () )

There is a

isclass

in the module inspect.

Diez