other ways to check for <type 'function'>?

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elderic:
> 1.: --> sort of clumsy and discouraged by the docs as far as I read
> import types
> type(f) is types.FunctionType

What's the problem with this?

from types import FunctionType
if isinstance(f, FunctionType):
    ...

Bye,
bearophile