pyiron.base.generic.util module

Utility functions used in pyiron.

pyiron.base.generic.util.static_isinstance(obj, obj_type)[source]

A static implementation of isinstance() - instead of comparing an object and a class, the object is compared to a string, like ‘pyiron.base.job.generic.GenericJob’ or a list of strings.

Parameters

  • obj – the object to check

  • obj_type (str/list) – object type as string or a list of object types as string.

Returns

[True/False]

Return type

bool