Determining a variable's type is NoneType in python [duplicate]

Answer 1

Of course you can do it.

type(None)==None.__class__

True

Answer 2

NoneType just happens to not automatically be in the global scope. This isn't really a problem.

>>> NoneType = type(None)
>>> x = None
>>> type(x) == NoneType
True
>>> isinstance(x, NoneType)
True

In any case it would be unusual to do a type check. Rather you should test x is None.