Python 2 / 3，包括unicode

from __future__ import unicode_literals
from builtins import str  #  pip install future
isinstance('asdf', str)   #  True
isinstance(u'asdf', str)  #  True

http://python-future.org/overview.html

如果你不想依赖于外部库，这适用于Python 2.7+和Python 3 (http://ideone.com/uB4Kdc):

# your code goes here
s = ["test"];
#s = "test";
isString = False;

if(isinstance(s, str)):
    isString = True;
try:
    if(isinstance(s, basestring)):
        isString = True;
except NameError:
    pass;

if(isString):
    print("String");
else:
    print("Not String");

根据下面更好的答案进行编辑。向下走大约3个答案，找出basestring的cool值。

旧的回答: 注意unicode字符串，可以从多个地方获得，包括Windows中的所有COM调用。

if isinstance(target, str) or isinstance(target, unicode):

>>> thing = 'foo'
>>> type(thing).__name__ == 'str' or type(thing).__name__ == 'unicode'
True

Python 2 / 3，包括unicode

from __future__ import unicode_literals
from builtins import str  #  pip install future
isinstance('asdf', str)   #  True
isinstance(u'asdf', str)  #  True

http://python-future.org/overview.html

如果检查的不是整型和字符串，类型模块也存在。 http://docs.python.org/library/types.html