Re: [Python-Dev] Need a way to test for 8-bit-or-unicode-string

Guido van Rossum wrote:

if isinstance(x, str) or isinstance(x, unicode):

is apparently too much typing.

Perhaps we could extend isinstance(). How about isinstance(x, str, unicode) or isinstance(x, (str, unicode)) This is a common problem not limited to string types. I often want to test if something is a tuple or a list for example. Neil