checking one's type

[belinda thom]

Hi,

I've been using the following hack to determine if a type is  
acceptable and I suspect there is a better way to do it:

e.g.

if type(s) == type("") :
    print "okay, i'm happy you're a string"

If anyone knows a better way, I'm all ears.

Thanks,

--b 
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