What's the canonical way to check for type in Python?

Question

What is the best way to check whether a given object is of a given type? How about checking whether the object inherits from a given type?Let's say I have an object `o`. How do I check whether it's a `str`?

Answer 1

Method type(....) is your friend. For example, type("abcd") will give you <class 'str'>. In R, the equivalent function is class(....)