Okay. right now I'm using types.InstanceType approach.
To elaborate on the context of my question, I have this module whose
only job is to test an object against a large array of types. The
thing is that I never know in advance what is going to be the data,
and it could be just about anything
Jerry Hill wrote:
> I believe you can check for an instance of a new-style class
> with:
> isinstance(a, object)
I'm not sure if that will ever fail. Given values from my previous post,
I get:
In [16]: isinstance(a, object)
Out[16]: True
In [17]: isinstance(A, object)
Out[17]: True
In [18]: isins
Bernard Lebel wrote:
> That's fine, but that tells me that 'a' is an instance of 'A'.
> It doesn't, however, tell me if 'a' is an instance or the actual class object.
I'm not sure what you are trying to do.
In [1]: class A: pass
...:
In [2]: a=A()
In [3]: isinstance(a, A)
Out[3]: True
In [4]:
On 2/26/07, Bernard Lebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's fine, but that tells me that 'a' is an instance of 'A'.
> It doesn't, however, tell me if 'a' is an instance or the actual class object.
It doesn't?
>>> class A:
pass
>>> a = A()
>>> isinstance(a, A)
True
>>> isinstance(A, A)
That's fine, but that tells me that 'a' is an instance of 'A'.
It doesn't, however, tell me if 'a' is an instance or the actual class object.
Thanks
Bernard
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