Determining Types

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Adonis Vargas wrote:

> how am i able to determine types of variables? i have come up with the
> type() function but am unsuccessful in using it. this is the code in which
> im using the provided function:
>
> def convert():
>     if type(txth1.get()) == 'int':
>         print 'its an int'
>     elif type(txth1.get()) == 'str':
>         print 'its a string'
>
> any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Adonis

The problem you're having is that type() doesn't return a string, it returns a
type object, which you then have to compare to the objects in the types
module.

---
import types

 ...

if type(a)==types.IntType:
  print 'a is an integer'
elif type(a)==types.StringType:
  print 'a is a string'
---

A shortcut that I've seen is to just compare it to another type() call:

---
if type(a)==type(0):
  print 'a is an integer'
elif type(a)==type(''):
  print 'a is a string'
---

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams  <ignacio at openservices.net>