[Zope] type() and types

[Chris Meyers]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 11:52:46AM -0700, Dennis Allison wrote:
> The type() function is exceptionally usful for debugging but is unavailabe
> in python scripts for security reasons.  In my debug framework I would like
> to re-enable it.  Since it's a built-in just configuring to allo the import
> of types isn't enough.  What's the hack.
> 

You can use same_type(x,y) without any special imports in python scripts.

example:

if same_type(x,[]):
  #do something
else:
  print 'x is not a list'

HTH,
Chris

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