Determining the class of a device

I'm sure this is easy, but I can't seem to find it in the wiki.

I know I can get devices of a particular class:

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indigo.devices.iter(filter="indigo.relay")


But if I already have a device instance, how do I determine if it's the kind I'm interested in?:

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def deviceUpdated(self, oldDev, newDev):
    if ???newDev is indigo.relay???:
        do stuff


D'oh:

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type(newDev)


I need more coffee.

[matt (support)]

It depends on what you are doing, but I most often end up using isinstance:

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            if isinstance(dev, indigo.DimmerDevice):     # or indigo.RelayDevice, indigo.ThermostatDevice, etc.

Note that dimmer is a subclass of relay, so if you check for indigo.DimmerDevice then it will return true for all dimmers and relays.

Even better. Thank you.