how to find the type of a list element?

[Carl Bray]

You can also use thes types module (3.4 Library Reference) to check the
type.

if type(element) is types.ListType:

elif type(element) is types.TupleType:


<lobozc at my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8v7qsd$poo$1 at nnrp1.deja.com...
> a list like [1,2,3,[4,5],6,7] is passed to a procedure
> how can a procedure find whether a list element is a 'scalar' or a list?
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> I know I could, say, try to use exceptions for that - but I hope there
> is a better way.
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