codefire enlightened us with:
> I'm using the isinstance built-in function. I've found the docs for
> it, but there are no docs on the supported types.

All types/classes are supported.

> For example isinstance(a, int) works fine but isinstance(s, string)
> doesn't - because 'string is not known'.

That is because 'string' is not a class:

    print "abc".__class__.__name__

The name is 'str', not 'string'.

Sybren
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