<s>[INST] How to compare type of an object in Python? Basically I want to do this:
obj = 'str'
type ( obj ) == string

I tried:
type ( obj ) == type ( string )

and it didn't work.
Also, what about the other types? For example, I couldn't replicate NoneType.
 [/INST] isinstance()

In your case, isinstance("this is a string", str) will return True.
You may also want to read this: http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/isinstance/
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