How to detect what type a variable is?

[Roberto Bonvallet]

Leandro Ardissone wrote:
> And how I can compare this "<type 'str'>" output ?
> I want to decide what to do if the var is an string and what to do if
> not..
> 
> Tried with:
> if type(artistList) == "<type 'list'>":
> 
> and
> if type(artistList) == "list":
> 
> but nothing..

type() doesn't return a string, it returns a type object.
You should try this:

    if isinstance(artistList, list):
	...

Cheers,
-- 
Roberto Bonvallet