How to test if every item in a list of type 'int'?

Question

Say I have a list of numbers. How would I do to check that every item in the list is an int?
I have searched around, but haven\'t been able to find anything on this.

Answer 1

lst = [1,2,3]
lst2 = [1,2,'3']

list_is_int = lambda lst: [item for item in lst if isinstance(item, int)] == lst

print list_is_int(lst)
print list_is_int(lst2)

suxmac2:~$ python2.6 xx.py 
True
False

....one possible solution out of many using a list comprehension or filter()