How can I verify if the content of a variable is a list or a string?

[Andres Soto]

okok, my mistake is that I was using string in place of str. Thank you!!

regards 

Prof. Dr. Andrés Soto
DES DACI
UNACAR



>________________________________
> From: Noah Hall <enalicho at gmail.com>
>To: Andres Soto <soto_andres at yahoo.com> 
>Cc: "python-list at python.org" <python-list at python.org> 
>Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 6:58 PM
>Subject: Re: How can I verify if the content of a variable is a list or a string?
> 
>On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 12:44 AM, Andres Soto <soto_andres at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm writing a function which receive a list which elements are strings or
>> new lists (sublists) containing strings.
>> How can I verify if sone element of the list (which is contained in a
>> variable) is a list or a string?
>> I found the method isinstance(object,class) but I don't know which class
>> should I use for.
>> Thank you, regards
>>
>> Prof. Dr. Andrés Soto
>> DES DACI
>> UNACAR
>
>"list" and "str"
>
>>>> my_list = [1, 2, 3]
>>>> isinstance(my_list, list)
>True
>>>> my_string = "foobar"
>>>> isinstance(my_string, str)
>True
>
>
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