How to check if an object is an instance of a namedtuple?

Question

How do I check if an object is an instance of a Named tuple?

Answer 1

If you want to determine whether an object is an instance of a specific namedtuple, you can do this:

from collections import namedtuple

SomeThing = namedtuple('SomeThing', 'prop another_prop')
SomeOtherThing = namedtuple('SomeOtherThing', 'prop still_another_prop')

a = SomeThing(1, 2)

isinstance(a, SomeThing) # True
isinstance(a, SomeOtherThing) # False