Comparing variable types

[Andrew Bennetts]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:36:03PM -0400, Kill Bill wrote:
> type(i) == "<type 'float'>"
> this always returns false.  How come?
> type(i)returns <type 'float'> if i is a float so why isn't == working?

Because "<type 'float'>" is a string :)

You want
    import types
    type(i) == types.FloatType

or
    type(i) == type(1.0)

or in 2.2 and later you can simply do
    type(i) == float

-Andrew.