Determine the type of an object?

Question

Is there a simple way to determine if a variable is a list, dictionary, or something else? I am getting an object back that may be either type and I need to be able to tell

Answer 1

In general you can extract a string from object with the class name,

str_class = object.__class__.__name__

and using it for comparison,

if str_class == 'dict':
    # blablabla..
elif str_class == 'customclass':
    # blebleble..