What is the best (idiomatic) way to check the type of a Python variable?

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3789...

Accepted answer links:
[collections.Mapping]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/collec...
[ABC PEP]: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3119/

Answer 2 links:
[Dustin]: https://stackoverflow.com/users/39975/du...

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