<filename>instance_checker.py
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class InstanceCheck :
    """
    A class with "static" methods that check whether an input variable is
    an instance of certain types/classes
    """
    
    @staticmethod
    def isFloat(n) :
        """
        Checks whether n is a float or an integer
        (mathematically, integers are a subset of real numbers).
        """
        return isinstance(n, float) or isinstance(n, int)
