How to check type of object in Python

Question

I have some value in variable v  how to check it s type   Hint  it is NOT v dtype   When I do type v  in debugger  I get   type v     type   lt type  h5py h5r Reference  gt    or  type v     type   lt class  h5py  hl dataset Dataset  gt    How to check these value at runtime    Check  means calculate boolean result  saying if the type is given   UPDATE  In so called  duplicate  question  it is said  that to compare type one should use  type v  is str   which implicitly assume that types are strings  Are they

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What type   means  I think your question is a bit more general than I originally thought  type   with one argument returns the type or class of the object  So if you have a    abc  and use type a  this returns str because the variable a is a string  If b   10  type b  returns int  See also python documentation on type     For comparisons  If you want a comparison you could use  if type v     h5py h5r Reference  to check if it is a h5py h5r Reference instance   But it is recommended that one uses if isinstance v  h5py h5r Reference  but then also subclasses will evaluate to True  If you want to print the class use print v   class     name    More generally  You can compare if two instances have the same class by using type v  is type other v  or isinstance v  other v   class

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use isinstance v  type name  or type v  is type name or type v     type name    where type name can be one of the following    None bool int float complex str list tuple set dict   and  of course     custom types  classes

[python] How to check type of object in Python?

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