[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > but seriously, unless you're writing an introspection tool, testing for > > bool is pretty silly. just use "if v" or "if not v", and leave the rest to > > Python. > > > The OP's code(and his work around) doesn't look like he is testing for > boolean
which of course explains why he wrote In some program I was testing if a variable was a boolean in the post I replied to... > but more like the data type of something. I thought there is some idiom > in python which said something like "don't assume" ? "think before you post" ? </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list