Re: [Jython-users] Can Jython variable tell it is certain type of class, just as keyword "instanceof" in Java?

[dman <ds...@ri...>]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 02:34:46PM -0800, Yang Wang wrote:
| Hi All,
| 
| In Jython, how would user examine a variable to see its inheritance
| tree?  In Java, it can be easily done with keyword "instanceof".  

In *python* (remember, jython is an implementation of the python
language) the function 'isinstance()' given an instance object and a
class object will return true or false indicating if the instance is
an instance of the class (or a subclass).

-D

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