What is the command to determine an object's type?

[Mark McEahern]

MDK wrote:
> How can I tell if an object is a string, a list, or a dictionary in a
> program using if and ifelse so that I can perform a differnent action
> depending on the object's type?

$ python
>>> import types
>>> l = []
>>> if type(l) == types.ListType:
...     print "yeah baby!"
...
yeah baby!
>>>

// mark