Testing types with boduch

The boduch Python library provides a simple type testing utility function that allows truth tests for both primitive and user-defined data types. Python does offer built-in type testing utilities, but there is currently no unification between user-defined classes and primitive types. Here is an example of how to use the is_type() function.

#boduch type testing example.

from boduch.type import is_type

class MyBaseType:
   pass

class MyType(MyBaseType):
   pass

if __name__=="__main__":
   print "Testing string type."
   print is_type("my string", "str")
   print "Testing boolean type."
   print is_type(False, "boolean")
   print "Testing a class type."
   print is_type(MyType(), "MyType")
   print "Testing for a base class."
   print is_type(MyType(), "MyBaseType")

As you can see, we can significantly cut down the number of lines required for type testing with a single function. Also note, is_type() can also test if the specified instance belongs in an inheritance lattice, as demonstrated in this example.