In Python, you usually want to check if a given object behaves like a string or a list, not necessarily if it’s exactly a string. So instead of checking for string and all its custom …

Aug 3, 2014 · In Python, you can use the built-in isinstance() function to check if an object is of a given type, or if it inherits from a given type. To check if the object o is of type str, you would …

2398 There are two built-in functions that help you identify the type of an object. You can use type() if you need the exact type of an object, and isinstance() to check an object’s type …

54 First, avoid all type comparisons. They're very, very rarely necessary. Sometimes, they help to check parameter types in a function -- even that's rare. Wrong type data will raise an …

Jan 30, 2011 · Is there a way to check if the type of a variable in python is a string, like: isinstance(x,int); for integer values?

Feb 27, 2018 · Basically, I need to check the type of data of which a variable is storing before replacing the data stored in the variable with the new data. For example, how to check if the …

Because in fact this approach is discouraged in python as mentioned several times here. But if one still want to use it - should be aware of some pandas-specific dtypes like …

The OP should be warned that this can lead to unexpected behaviour in Python 2, because isinstance (10**100, int) == False. You'd need to do isinstance (n, (int, long)). But in Python, …

Nov 1, 2016 · The singular form dtype is used to check the data type for a single column while the plural form dtypes is for data frame which returns data types for all columns. Essentially: For a …

print "lets see if this works" if isinstance(x, list): ## most preferred way to check if it's list print "This should work just fine" The difference between isinstance() and type() though both seems to do …