Type constants?

[Remco Gerlich]

Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote in comp.lang.python:
> Is there a way of writing type('') as a constant?  What I want to do
> is check to see if an object is a string.  The best I can think of is
> to do something like:
> 
> if type(foo) == type('')
> 
> which would work, but seems kind of silly.  Is there no pre-defined
> object somewhere whose value is <type 'string'>?

You're looking for types.StringType.

import types
if type(foo) is types.StringType:

But comparing to type('') is pretty common too.

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Remco Gerlich