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Re: How can I verify if the content of a variable is a list or a string?

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Date 2012-02-01 23:19 -0800
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Subject Re: How can I verify if the content of a variable is a list or a string?
From Rainer Grimm <r.grimm@science-computing.de>
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You can do it more concise.

>>> def isListOrString(p):
...    return any((isinstance(p,list),isinstance(p,str)))
...
>>> listOrString("string")
True
>>> listOrString([1,2,3])
True
>>> listOrString(2)
False
>>> listOrString(False)
False

Rainer

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Re: How can I verify if the content of a variable is a list or a string? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-01-31 19:56 -0500
  Re: How can I verify if the content of a variable is a list or a string? Rainer Grimm <r.grimm@science-computing.de> - 2012-02-01 23:19 -0800
  Re: How can I verify if the content of a variable is a list or a string? Rainer Grimm <r.grimm@science-computing.de> - 2012-02-01 23:19 -0800
    Re: How can I verify if the content of a variable is a list or a string? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-02-02 07:31 +0000

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