Gary Herron wrote:
> In Python, all values have an associated type which you can query with
> type(v) thus:
>
> from types import *
>
> if type(v) == IntType:
> ... whatever ...
>
> Several types would qualify as "numbers": IntType, FloatType, LongType,
> and ComplexType,
> and several as "strings": StringType and UnicodeType
This is bad practice on so many levels...
If you really do need to test for a type use isinstance, not
'type(v)==something'.
You didn't need to import any of those types from types: they are all
builtins albeit under different names.
If you really must:
if isinstance(v, (int, float, long, complex)):
...
or for strings use the base type:
if isinstance(v, basestring):
...
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