How do you set a conditional in python based on datatypes?

Question

This question seems mind-boggling simple, yet I can\'t figure it out. I know you can check datatypes in python, but how can you set a conditional based on the datatype? For

Answer 1

let me declare variable x of type int

x = 2
if type(x) == type(1) or isinstance(x, int):  
    # do something

Both works fine.