detecting variable types

[Chris Green]

"Jay" <wjjeonk at hotmail.com> writes:

> I'm sure this is a really dumb question, but how do you detect a variable
> type in Python?
>
> For example, I want to know if the variable "a" is a list of strings or a
> single string. How do I do this?

>>> type("a")
<type 'str'>
>>> type(1)
<type 'int'>

you should look at the types module as well

>>> type("a") == types.StringType
True
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