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

Type doesn't work on certain classes. If you're not sure of the object's type use the __class__ method, as so:

>>>obj = 'a string'
>>>obj.__class__ == str
True

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