Easy Q

Victor Subervi victorsubervi at gmail.com
Sat Jan 9 13:18:26 EST 2010


On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Gary Herron <gherron at islandtraining.com>wrote:

> Victor Subervi wrote:
>
>> Hi;
>> I have a string.join statement on a variable that comes from a
>> cgi.FieldStorage().getlist. The variable may be a list or a single value. I
>> need to treat it differently depending on which it is. How can I distinguish
>> it? len(var) will obviously give me the length of the string if it's a
>> string and the length of the list if it's a list.
>> TIA,
>> beno
>>
>
> Like this:
>
> if isinstance(var, list):
>  ... join ...
> else:
>  ... ??? ...
>

Right.. Thanks!
beno
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