a = '1000' # also tested for 'abc100', 'a100bc', '100abc'

isinstance(a, str) or isinstance(a, unicode)

返回True

type(a) in [str, unicode]

返回True

我是这样做的:

if type(x) == type(str()):

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");

因为在Python3中没有定义basestring，这个小技巧可能有助于使代码兼容:

try: # check whether python knows about 'basestring'
   basestring
except NameError: # no, it doesn't (it's Python3); use 'str' instead
   basestring=str

之后，您可以在Python2和Python3上运行以下测试

isinstance(myvar, basestring)

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

在Python 3中。X，检查s是否是字符串的正确方法是

isinstance(s, str)

在Python 3中，bytes类不被认为是字符串类型。

在Python 2中。X，正确的检查是

isinstance(s, basestring)

Basestring是STR和unicode的抽象超类。它可以用来测试一个对象是否是str或unicode的实例。