compare types?

[Gerhard Häring]

* pythonhda <pythonhda at yahoo.com.replacepythonwithlinux> [2002-12-31 13:16 -0500]:
> It looks like you're trying to compare a "type" object to a "string" object. So they will never match. 
> You could try to do something like convert the first part to a string:
> 
> if str(type(item)) == "<type 'DateTime'>":

This is not a good idea, and the best answer has already been mentioned:
use isinstance!

OTOH if you really really want to check for the exact type (and not
possible subclasses thereof), you can do:

    type(item) is DateTimeType

But as there's probably no reason to do so please use
isinstance(item, DateTimeType) :-)

Gerhard
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