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

[Aahz]

At least with the latter, you can do:

stringtype = (str, unicode) isinstance(x, stringtype)

Hmmmm... Or can you?

Yes -- it's the value of the expression that counts, not how it's spelled. You can even nest these tuples:

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int_types = int, long file_types = file, def fori(x): ... return isinstance(x, (int_types, file_types)) ... fori(43) 1 fori(43L) 1 import sys fori(sys.stdin) 1 fori(43.0) 0