How to compare type of an object in Python?

Question

Basically I want to do this:

obj = \'str\'
type ( obj ) == string

I tried:

type ( obj ) == type ( string )

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Answer 1

isinstance()

In your case, isinstance("this is a string", str) will return True.

You may also want to read this: http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/isinstance/