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

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1525...

Question links:
[How do I check if a string represents a number (float or int)?]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3540...
[How can I read inputs as numbers?]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2044.../
[Asking the user for input until they give a valid response]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2329.../

Accepted answer links:
[isinstance]: https://docs.python.org/library/function...
[Built-in Functions]: http://docs.python.org/library/functions...
[unicode]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/functi...
[basestring]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/functi...
[a strict separation]: https://docs.python.org/whatsnew/3.0.htm...
[str]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/functi...
[bytes]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/functi...

Answer 2 links:
[Duck Typing]: http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing

Answer 4 links:
[type hints were added to Python]: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/

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