python: how to identify if a variable is an array or a scalar

Question

I have a function that takes the argument NBins. I want to make a call to this function with a scalar 50 or an array [0, 10, 20, 30].

Answer 1

You can check data type of variable.

N = [2,3,5]
P = 5
type(P)

It will give you out put as data type of P.

So that you can differentiate that it is an integer or an array.