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

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Barry A. Warsaw writes:
 > And what would it return?  It needs to return a true value on success,
 > but maybe instead of returning 1, it might be more useful to return
 > the type argument that matched, e.g.:

  Ugh!  If that's what you want, make it explicit in the code:


    for t in ListType, TupleType, ...:
        if isinstance(obj, t):
            break
    else:
        raise Exception('no match!')


  -Fred

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