[Zope-dev] ?determine if x is a string or array in PythonScript

[Shane Hathaway]

Tim Hoffman wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I must be stupid or something, but I can't for the life
> of me work out a simple way of determining if a variable contains 
> a string or array, in a PythonScript in Zope.
> 
> I can't import type and or use type() function.
> isinstance doesn't work because I can't give a type as the second arg.

Python scripts provide a special function, "same_type()", for this 
purpose.  Example:

if same_type(s, ''):
   s = [s]

Shane