How to detect what type a variable is?

[Leandro Ardissone]

great,

that is just what I need!

Thank you all!

--
Leandro Ardissone

On Nov 29, 1:29 pm, Roberto Bonvallet <Roberto.Bonval... at cern.ch>
wrote:
> 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