On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Markus Reitz wrote: > is there a possibilty to check if a variable refers to an object of type x? Yes, builtin fuction type(x): if type(x) <> type([]): print "not list!" Oleg. ---- Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ phd at phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.