determining type

[Mike Mikkelsen]

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

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