On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com>wrote:
>
>
> "Sander Sweers" <sander.swe...@gmail.com> wrote
>
> mylist = ['John', 'Canada', 25, 32, 'right']
>>> a = [item.upper() for item in mylist if type(item) == type('good')]
>>>
>>
>> Usually it is recommended to use hasattr() instead of type()
>> hasattr(s, 'upper')
>>
>
> Nope, they do completely different things
> I think you might be thinking of isinstance() which can be used instead of
> type(). I see you use hasattr as a means of testing for a method but that is
> still different from testing type - the method names might be the same but
> the functions be completely different in effect!
When I read Sander's advice, I thought it would be the sensible thing to do
when working with strings that could be either vanilla 8-bit strings or
Unicode strings.
For example:
>>> my_list = ['a string', u'another string', 42]
>>> print [item.upper() for item in my_list if hasattr(item, 'upper')]
['A STRING', u'ANOTHER STRING']
>>> print [item.upper() for item in my_list if type(item) == type('good')]
['A STRING']
Thinking of it, the same result could be achieved with 'if isinstance(item,
basestring)'.
Is there any compelling reason to write:
[item.upper() for item in my_list if isinstance(item, basestring)]
rather than the following?
[item.upper() for item in my_list if hasattr(item, 'upper')]
Emmanuel
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