On 1/31/2012 7:44 PM, Andres Soto wrote:
Hi, I'm writing a function which receive a list which elements are strings or new lists (sublists) containing strings. How can I verify if sone element of the list (which is contained in a variable) is a list or a string? I found the method isinstance(object,class) but I don't know which class should I use for.
For 3.x, 'list' or 'str' (where 'str' means unicode). For 2.x, I believe 'basestring' includes unicode strings as well as byte strings.
>>> isinstance([], list) True >>> isinstance([], str) False -- Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
