class instance checking -- newbie

[Will Ware]

Tim Northover (tim at pnorthover.freeserve.co.uk) wrote:
> I think I need to determine whether an object belongs to a particular
> class (specifically whether it is a MatchObject)...

>>> class Foo:
...   pass
... 
>>> a = Foo()
>>> a
<__main__.Foo instance at e3a20>
>>> isinstance(a, Foo)
1
>>> isinstance(11, Foo)
0

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