要获取类型，使用__class__成员，如unknown_thing.__class__

Talk of duck-typing is useless here because it doesn't answer a perfectly good question. In my application code I never need to know the type of something, but it's still useful to have a way to learn an object's type. Sometimes I need to get the actual class to validate a unit test. Duck typing gets in the way there because all possible objects have the same API, but only one is correct. Also, sometimes I'm maintaining somebody else's code, and I have no idea what kind of object I've been passed. This is my biggest problem with dynamically typed languages like Python. Version 1 is very easy and quick to develop. Version 2 is a pain in the buns, especially if you didn't write version 1. So sometimes, when I'm working with a function I didn't write, I need to know the type of a parameter, just so I know what methods I can call on it.

这就是__class__参数派上用场的地方。这(据我所知)是获取对象类型的最佳方法(可能是唯一的方法)。

首先，避免所有类型比较。它们很少是必要的。有时，它们有助于检查函数中的参数类型——即使这种情况也很少见。错误类型的数据将引发异常，而这正是您所需要的。

所有基本转换函数都将映射为类型函数。

type(9) is int
type(2.5) is float
type('x') is str
type(u'x') is unicode
type(2+3j) is complex

还有其他一些情况。

isinstance( 'x', basestring )
isinstance( u'u', basestring )
isinstance( 9, int )
isinstance( 2.5, float )
isinstance( (2+3j), complex )

顺便说一句，None从来不需要任何这种类型的检查。None是唯一的实例。None对象是一个单例对象。只检查None

variable is None

顺便说一下，一般情况下不要使用上述方法。使用普通异常和Python本身的自然多态。

我想这个就可以了

if isinstance(obj, str)

isinstance()

在你的例子中，isinstance("this is a string"， str)将返回True。

你可能还想读这个:http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/isinstance/

您可以比较类的检查级别。

#!/usr/bin/env python
#coding:utf8

class A(object):
    def t(self):
        print 'A'
    def r(self):
        print 'rA',
        self.t()

class B(A):
    def t(self):
        print 'B'

class C(A):
    def t(self):
        print 'C'

class D(B, C):
    def t(self):
        print 'D',
        super(D, self).t()

class E(C, B):
    pass

d = D()
d.t()
d.r()

e = E()
e.t()
e.r()

print isinstance(e, D) # False
print isinstance(e, E) # True
print isinstance(e, C) # True
print isinstance(e, B) # True
print isinstance(e, (A,)) # True
print e.__class__ >= A, #False
print e.__class__ <= C, #False
print e.__class__ <  E, #False
print e.__class__ <= E  #True

对于其他类型，请查看types模块:

>>> import types
>>> x = "mystring"
>>> isinstance(x, types.StringType)
True
>>> x = 5
>>> isinstance(x, types.IntType)
True
>>> x = None
>>> isinstance(x, types.NoneType)
True

注:类型检查是个坏主意。