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

[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.
> isinstance doesn't work because I can't give a type as the second arg.
> 
> I obviously just can't see the wood for the trees, can anyone help
> out this silly individual ?

Testing for string methods works :)

  if hasattr(item, 'startswith'):
      # A String
  else:
      # Something else

On a similar note you can test for a specific list method.

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