[Zope-dev] Is there a function to get the object type?

[Lennart Regebro]

On 4/11/06, Takahashi, Michael <MTakahashi at oid.ucla.edu> wrote:
>   I'm trying to write a function that checks to see if the current object is
> a 'Folder'.

several ways:

    isinstance(object, Folder) # does not work in python scripts

or

   object.meta_type == "Folder" # does work in python scripts

or

   object.portal_type == "Folder" # if it's a CMF object.

or also:

   if getattr(object, 'objectIds', None) is not None:

This doesn't check if it is a Folder, but if it implements an object
manager type interface, which may or may not be what you want. :)

Oh, and zope-dev is for development of Zope, not with zope. You should
ask in zope at zope.org.

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