How to find out if a Python object is a string?

Question

How can I check if a Python object is a string (either regular or Unicode)?

Answer 1

In order to check if your variable is something you could go like:

s='Hello World'
if isinstance(s,str):
#do something here,

The output of isistance will give you a boolean True or False value so you can adjust accordingly. You can check the expected acronym of your value by initially using: type(s) This will return you type 'str' so you can use it in the isistance function.