[Python-Dev] Need a way to test for 8-bit-or-unicode-string (original) (raw)

Aahz Maruch aahz@rahul.net
Sun, 7 Oct 2001 09:00:31 -0700 (PDT)

[I know we've already reached agreement, but I feel the need to stick my oar in.]

Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

NS> Perhaps we could extend isinstance(). How about NS> isinstance(x, str, unicode) NS> or NS> isinstance(x, (str, unicode)) NS> This is a common problem not limited to string types. I often NS> want to test if something is a tuple or a list for example. That's an interesting idea, but please use the former signature, not the latter.

Ewww, gross, spit spit spit. ;-)

At least with the latter, you can do:

stringtype = (str, unicode)
isinstance(x, stringtype)

Hmmmm... Or can you?

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