How to check if an element of a list is a list (in Python)?

Question

If we have the following list:

list = [\'UMM\', \'Uma\', [\'Ulaster\',\'Ulter\']]

If I need to find out if an element in the list is itself

Answer 1

Use isinstance:

if isinstance(e, list):

If you want to check that an object is a list or a tuple, pass several classes to isinstance:

if isinstance(e, (list, tuple)):