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

You can check with the below line to check which character type the given value is:

def chr_type(chrx):
    if chrx.isalpha()==True:
        return 'alpha'
    elif chrx.isdigit()==True:
        return 'numeric'
    else:
        return 'nothing'

chr_type("12)