Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Sat Jul 13 17:07:29 EDT 2002

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Roy Smith wrote:

> Is there a standard isA() function in Python?  It should take two
> arguments, an instance and a class, and return true if the object is a
> member of the class or one of the class's ancestors.

You want `isinstance'.

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