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How would I check to see if an object is an instance of a socket?

Jun 10th, 2000 16:22
unknown unknown, Moshe Zadka, Jerome Chan

Use the type() function:

>>> type(socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM))
<type 'socket'>

In the socket documentation:

if type(s)==socket.SocketType: print "hello"