So,

你有很多选项来检查你的变量是否是字符串:

a = "my string"
type(a) == str # first 
a.__class__ == str # second
isinstance(a, str) # third
str(a) == a # forth
type(a) == type('') # fifth

这个命令是有目的的。

根据下面更好的答案进行编辑。向下走大约3个答案，找出basestring的cool值。

旧的回答: 注意unicode字符串，可以从多个地方获得，包括Windows中的所有COM调用。

if isinstance(target, str) or isinstance(target, unicode):

在Python 3中。x或Python 2.7.6

if type(x) == str:

s = '123'
issubclass(s.__class__, str)

a = '1000' # also tested for 'abc100', 'a100bc', '100abc'

isinstance(a, str) or isinstance(a, unicode)

返回True

type(a) in [str, unicode]

返回True

如果你不想依赖于外部库，这适用于Python 2.7+和Python 3 (http://ideone.com/uB4Kdc):

# your code goes here
s = ["test"];
#s = "test";
isString = False;

if(isinstance(s, str)):
    isString = True;
try:
    if(isinstance(s, basestring)):
        isString = True;
except NameError:
    pass;

if(isString):
    print("String");
else:
    print("Not String");