Lots of ridiculously bad advice here, every single code snippet does something idiotic! The whole article should be replaced by two words: "import inspect" Thi

Lots of ridiculously bad advice here, every single code snippet does something idiotic! The whole article should be replaced by two words: "import inspect" This snippet was particularly shit: >>> var1 = 12 >>> typ = str(type(var1)) >>> if typ == "": ... var1 / 4 ... else: print 'Not an Int' This is wrong on so many levels! For starters, it doesn't work at all -- why the hell does he think typ won't be "<type 'int'>"? Second, if you're going to use the type builtin for this, why the fuck would you cast it to a string, when "if type(var1) is int" works just fine? Third, don't ever use the 'type' built-in for this kind of type-checking -- this is what the 'isinstance' built-in is for. 'type' chokes completely on old-style classes, and doesn't handle inheritance at all.