How to access the NoneType type?

Question

For example looking at the type of None, we can see that it has NoneType:

>>> type(None)
NoneType

However a NameErr

Answer 1

As suggested by @dawg in the comments, you can do

if (type(some_object).__name__ == "NoneType"):
  # Do some
  pass

You can also do

NoneType = type(None)    
isinstance(some_object, NoneType)