determining type

[Stephen Hansen]

import types

if type(a['item2']) == types.DictType:
    print a['item2']['subitem1']

--Stephen

Mike Mikkelsen <mikk at microbsys.com> wrote in message
news:396e07fd at news-out...
> Hello All,
>
> Is there a way, programmatically,  to determine if an item in a
dictionairy is itself a dictionairy?
>
> consider:
> >>>   a = {'item1': 'hello', 'item2':{'subitem1':'goodbye'}}
> >>>   print a['item2']['subitem1']
> goodbye
>
> Is there a way to tell if 'item2' is a dictionairy, list or simple value
like 'item1'?
>
>
>
> TIA
>
> --
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