Roy Smith wrote:
> Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Currently there's no good duck-typing way to differentiate
>> strings from other sequences.
>
> I suppose you could do something like:
>
> try:
> foo.isalpha
> except AttributeError:
> print "foo is not a string"
Another way:
if getattr (foo, 'isalpha', False):
print 'foo is a string'
Of course now string duck types must have an 'isalpha' and list ones can't,
but that shouldn't matter much.
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