What's the canonical way to check for type in Python?

Question

What is the best way to check whether a given object is of a given type? How about checking whether the object inherits from a given type?

Let\'s say I have an objec

Answer 1

A simple way to check type is to compare it with something whose type you know.

>>> a  = 1
>>> type(a) == type(1)
True
>>> b = 'abc'
>>> type(b) == type('')
True