determining type

[shindich at my-deja.com]

In article <396e07fd at news-out>,
  "Mike Mikkelsen" <mikk at microbsys.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Mike Mikkelsen                   mikk at microbsys.com
> Micro Business Systems         http://microbsys.com
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>
>                  It's all GNU to me!
>
>
Try this:
	if type (a['item2']) == type ({}):
		print 'It\'s a dictionary'
	else:
		print type (a['item2'])

I hope this helps!

Alex Shindich
http://www.shindich.com/


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