Attempting to find a common differentiation between strings and other iterable collections.

iterable_differentiation_test.py

# Attempting to find a common differentiation
# between strings and other iterable collections.

import collections

testSubjects = [
    'asdf',
    1,
    [1, ],
    (1,),
    set((1,)),
    {'a': 1, }
]
testClasses = [cls for name, cls in collections.__dict__.items() if isinstance(cls, type)]
testClasses += [basestring]

for testClass in testClasses:
    results = []
    for testSubject in testSubjects:
        result = isinstance(testSubject, testClass)
        results.append(result)
    if (
            (results[1:] != results[:-1])  # All results are the same
    ):
        for index, result in enumerate(results):
            print testClass.__name__, testSubjects[index], result
        print