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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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On 1/31/2012 7:44 PM, Andres Soto wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm writing a function which receive a list which elements are strings
> or new lists (sublists) containing strings.
> How can I verify if sone element of the list (which is contained in a
> variable) is a list or a string?
> I found the method isinstance(object,class) but I don't know which class
> should I use for.

For 3.x, 'list' or 'str' (where 'str' means unicode). For 2.x, I believe 
'basestring' includes unicode strings as well as byte strings.

 >>> isinstance([], list)
True
 >>> isinstance([], str)
False

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Terry Jan Reedy

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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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