How to Check the Data Type in an if Statement

In Python we can get the data types of an object with the type command (type(object)). For example:

x = 5
type(x)

int

x = [1,2,3]
type(x)

list

However, this approach does not work in the if statements as we can see below:

x = [1,2,3]
if type(x)=='list':
    print("This is a list")

else:
    print("I didn't find any list")

I didn't find any list

For that reason, we should work with the isinstance(object, type) function. For example:

x = [1,2,3]
if isinstance(x, list):
    print("This is a list")

elif isinstance(x, int):
    print("This is an integer")
    
else:
    print("This is neither list nor integer")

This is a list

x = 5
if isinstance(x, list):
    print("This is a list")

elif isinstance(x, int):
    print("This is an integer")
    
else:
    print("This is neither list nor integer")

This is an integer

x = "5"
if isinstance(x, list):
    print("This is a list")

elif isinstance(x, int):
    print("This is an integer")
    
else:
    print("This is neither list nor integer")

This is neither list nor integer