Tuvas wrote: > I need a function that will tell if a given variable is a character or > a number. Is there a way to do this? Thanks! > You can test the type of the object as follows: >>> a='abc' >>> isinstance(a, str) True >>> isinstance(a, (list, tuple)) False >>>
The old way was to use type(a), but I think isinstance is the new "preferred" method. Larry Bates -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list