Re: [Zope-dev] ?determine if x is a string or array in PythonScript

2002-07-11 Thread Tim Hoffman
Thanks shane I missed that in the doc's, I have to admit I have done some pretty crusty things in the past to try and work it out, like checking for methods etc.. which always struck me as 1, quite possibly incorrect especially if I got a dictionary with an element with the same name as the met

Re: [Zope-dev] ?determine if x is a string or array in PythonScript

2002-07-11 Thread Martijn Pieters
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 04:10:33PM -0400, Shane Hathaway wrote: > Python scripts provide a special function, "same_type()", for this > purpose. Example: > > if same_type(s, ''): > s = [s] Much better than my hacked-up solution. :p -- Martijn Pieters | Software Engineer mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [Zope-dev] ?determine if x is a string or array in PythonScript

2002-07-11 Thread Martijn Pieters
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 05:22:48PM +0800, Tim Hoffman wrote: > I must be stupid or something, but I can't for the life > of me work out a simple way of determining if a variable contains > a string or array, in a PythonScript in Zope. > > I can't import type and or use type() function. > isinsta

Re: [Zope-dev] ?determine if x is a string or array in PythonScript

2002-07-11 Thread Shane Hathaway
Tim Hoffman wrote: > Hi > > I must be stupid or something, but I can't for the life > of me work out a simple way of determining if a variable contains > a string or array, in a PythonScript in Zope. > > I can't import type and or use type() function. > isinstance doesn't work because I can't g