Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Currently there's no good duck-typing way to differentiate > strings from other sequences.
I suppose you could do something like: try: foo.isalpha except AttributeError: print "foo is not a string" but other than proving that you don't *have* to use isinstance(), I don't think that approach has much going for it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list