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

I think the best way is to typing well your variables. You can do this by using the "typing" library.

Example:

from typing import NewType UserId = NewType ('UserId', int) some_id = UserId (524313)`

See https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html