determine “type of value” from a string in python

Question

I\'m trying to write a function in python, which will determine what type of value is in string; for example

if in string is 1 or 0 or True or False the value is BI

Answer 1

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For example it doesn't work for 2010-00-10 which should be Text, but is INT or 20.90, which should be float but is int

>>> import re
>>> patternINT=re.compile('[0-9]+')
>>> print patternINT.match('2010-00-10')
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x7fa17bc69850>
>>> patternINT=re.compile('[0-9]+$')
>>> print patternINT.match('2010-00-10')
None
>>> print patternINT.match('2010')
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x7fa17bc69850>

Don't forget $ to limit ending of string.