How to test the data type of a variable
Alan Bawden
alan at csail.mit.edu
Thu Apr 23 21:46:04 EDT 2020
Deac-33 Lancaster <deac33 at gmail.com> writes:
> I'm aware that you can find the type of a variable with
> type(var)
(Strictly speaking, variables don't have types. This gives you the type of
the variable's current value. But we know what you meant.)
> But are there Boolean operators in Python3.8 to test the data type, e.g.
> is_floate(var)
> is_string(var)
> etc. ?
You should probably be using isinstance(), as in:
isinstance(var, float)
isinstance(var, str)
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Alan Bawden
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