dpapathanasiou wrote:
... I'd like to define a loop like this, ... for key, value in my_dict.items(): if type{value) is <type 'dict'>: # do the dictionary logic elif type(value) is <type 'str'>: # do the string logic # etc
You're searching for "isinstance" (or possibly issubclass) for key, value in my_dict.items(): if isinstance(value, dict): # do the dictionary logic elif isinstance(value, str): # use basestring for str & unicode # do the string logic Or, if you _must_ use type: if issubclass(type(value), dict): # do the dictionary logic elif issubclass(type(value), str): # do the string logic --Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list