So how can I test if a variable 'a' is either a single character string or a list?
py> def test(x): ... return (isinstance(x, list) or ... isinstance(x, basestring) and len(x) == 1) ... py> test('a') True py> test('ab') False py> test([]) True py> test(['a', 'b']) True
But definitely read Simon Brunning's post - you probably don't actually want to do this test. Why do you think you want to test this? What's your use case?
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