Type Identification

[Jonathan Donald]

I'm brand new to Python, and I'm having difficulty testing for the class
of an object.

WHERE:           fNode is an instance of class FileRecord (superclass of
DirectoryRecord)
                    and DirectoryRecord is an instance of
DirectoryRecord class


...why does the following expression not return false?

    if type(fNode) == type(aDirectoryRecord):


Any hints are greatly appreciated.

-jd


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