How do I check if an object is of specific types in Python?

Question

I'm explicitly type checking an object and am stumped.

The following returns True:

>>>type(data_id['CharacteristicLabel']) is bool
True

I need to check if that object data_id['CharacteristicLabel'] is either int or float or bool, so I thought of doing this, which returns False:

>>>type(data_id['CharacteristicLabel']) is (int or float or bool)
False

What is the proper way to do this?

Nvm, a simple `isinstance` with using a set of types in the second argument can do this... So basically `isinstance(data_id['CharacteristicLabel'], (int ,float ,bool) — simplycoding, Oct 26 '17 at 18:30
See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15112125/how-do-i-test-multiple-variables-against-a-value, but also consider `isinstance`. — user2357112, Oct 26 '17 at 18:30
@simplycoding note that isinstance != type, for example, False is an instance of int, but not of type int. — cs95, Oct 26 '17 at 18:30

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 26 '17 at 19:46

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use isinstance

isinstance(somenumber, (int, float))

answered Oct 26 '17 at 19:46

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How do I check if an object is of specific types in Python?

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