Re: [Zope-dev] Asking for the type of a variable

Christopher Petrilli wrote:

On 11/9/99 4:55 PM, David S. Harrison at dsh@magma-da.com wrote:

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<dtml-if "_.type(TAG)==_.type('x')">

Since I've hardly ever seen 'type' used *except* in this exact kind of construction, how about a standard namespace function: def same_type(a, b): return type(a) == type(b) which would allow <dtml-if "_.same_type(TAG, 'x')">. It could even be extended to fall back to meta_type on ExtensionClasses, but it's nice and simple as is. Cheers, Evan @ 4-am