Okay..... right now I'm using types.InstanceType approach.
To elaborate on the context of my question, I have this module whose only job is to test an object against a large array of types. The thing is that I never know in advance what is going to be the data, and it could be just about anything (string, int, float, bool, class object, class instance, etc), and I never in advance against what type it will be tested. Plus, in case the data is an instance of a class I have coded, the module never knows what is the actual class object the instance is obtained from. Only the functions making call to this module "know" what they expect from the module. There are countless of such functions, and each has its own specificities. So I'm aiming as a generic code as possible, where only the type of the object is relevant, without any need for additional data. Thanks Bernard On 2/26/07, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jerry Hill wrote: > > I believe you can check for an instance of a new-style class > > with: > > isinstance(a, object) > > I'm not sure if that will ever fail. Given values from my previous post, > I get: > In [16]: isinstance(a, object) > Out[16]: True > In [17]: isinstance(A, object) > Out[17]: True > In [18]: isinstance(b, object) > Out[18]: True > In [19]: isinstance(types, object) > Out[19]: True > In [20]: def f(): pass > ....: > In [21]: isinstance(f, object) > Out[21]: True > > Kent > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
