On Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 6:46:14 PM UTC-7, Alan Bawden wrote: > Deac-33 Lancaster <dea...@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) > > -- > Alan Bawden
Alan, Much thanks for the response. Yes, dynamic typing so it can change. But this is what I was looking for, unable to find it in the docs, need more practice at that. :-) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
