On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Vijay Shanker <deont...@gmail.com> wrote: > well it will always return me this: > <type 'str'> > > what i want is if i know arg1 is of string type(and it can be of any type, > say list, int,float) and arg2 is of any type, how can i convert it to type of > arg1, > if arg1='hello world', type(arg1).__name__ will give me 'str', can i use this > to convert my arg2 to this type, w/o resorting to if-elif conditions as there > will be too many if-elif-else and it doesn really sounds a great idea !
Oh, okay. Then switch the order of the arguments in what I posted: def coerce(target,convertme): return type(target)(convertme) You don't need to worry about the actual name of the type. It's telling you that it's <type 'str'>; that's an actual callable object (the same as the builtin name str, in this case). You can then call that to coerce the other argument to that type. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list