Checking if a variable is a dictionary

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:29:48 +0000, Andrew Koenig wrote:

> So the question you need to answer is whether you want to determine
> whether an object is exactly of type dict, or whether it you are willing
> to accept types derived from dict also.

Or other mappings that don't inherit from dict but behave just like 
dicts, such as UserDict.


-- 
Steven