Say you have a CyObject.
It could be a CyPlayer, CyUnit, CyPlot, ect, but you don't know.

I've been looking through the API thinking I would find a CyUnit.isUnit or a gc.isUnit(CyUnit) at the least, but so far I've haven't found anything.

Could anyone offer some advice or suggestiongs?

what exactly are you trying to do?
In python you can't (usualy) create new CyObject, you only create a variable which points to an already existing Object.
for example in;
pUnit = pPlayer.getUnit(0)
The right hand side returns a CyUnit, and the pUnit variable is then set to equal that object. Nothing here is actualy being created, there is no new unit.

Well basicly I have this method getDataIDStr(pObj).

I want to get a unique id string for whatever pObj is passed in.

If a pUnit is passed in I want the strID to be
str(pUnit.getOwner) + "_" + str(pUnit.getID()) + "_" + str(pUnit.getUnitType())

but if it is a pCity I want it to be
str(pCity.getOwner) + "_" + str(City.getID()) + "_" + str(City.getCivilizationType())

and if it is a pPlot it would be
str(pPlot.getX()) + "_" + str(pPlot.getY())

So I am trying to figure a way to tell if the pObj passed in is a pPlot, pCity, ect.

Any ideas? :)

Ah I see. No there is no way of doing this that I can think of (in python anyway). I think you're better off having 3 different functions.

Nods, cool, just thought I would ask. :)

Well basicly I have this method getDataIDStr(pObj).

I want to get a unique id string for whatever pObj is passed in.

If a pUnit is passed in I want the strID to be
str(pUnit.getOwner) + "_" + str(pUnit.getID()) + "_" + str(pUnit.getUnitType())

but if it is a pCity I want it to be
str(pCity.getOwner) + "_" + str(City.getID()) + "_" + str(City.getCivilizationType())

and if it is a pPlot it would be
str(pPlot.getX()) + "_" + str(pPlot.getY())

So I am trying to figure a way to tell if the pObj passed in is a pPlot, pCity, ect.

Any ideas? :)


Check out the "type" function in python, used like this:


print type(pUnit)

returns:

<class 'CvPythonExtensions.CyUnit'>


By seeing what the type function returns, you can see what type of object it is.