Check whether the type of a variable is a specific type in Python

Question

I want to check whether the type of a variable is a specific kind in Python. For example- I want to check if var x is an int or not.

>>x=10
>>type(x)
<type 'int'>

But how can I compare their types. I tried this, but it doesn't seem to work.

if type(10)== "<type 'int'>":
    print 'yes'

How can I do this ?

Answer 1

Use the isinstance() function to test for a specific type:

isinstance(x, int)

isinstance() takes either a single type, or a tuple of types to test against:

isinstance(x, (float, complex, int))

would test for a series of different numeric types for example.