Aditya Lal wrote: > or use types module > > import types > > if type(n) == types.IntType or type(n) == types.LongType : > blah!
A few notes: - If you look at types.py, you find IntType = int LongType = long and so on for all the built-in types, so there is no need or advantage to importing types vs if type(n) == int - Common Python practice is to prefer the least restrictive type check possible. For Dick's specific case it doesn't matter, but I generally use isinstance() instead of checking for a specific type. The difference is that isinstance() is true for subtypes as well as the named type. You can also pass a tuple of types to isinstance() so you can say if isinstance(n, (int, long)) Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
