How to check if a variable is either a python list, numpy array or pandas series
This all really depends on what you are trying to achieve (will you allow a tuple, how about a range object?), but to be a bit less restrictive but still disallow strings (which I am guessing is what you are really trying to achieve) you can use the following code.
import collectionsimport pandasimport numpydef myfunc(x): if not isinstance(x, collections.abc.Iterable) or isinstance(x, (str, bytes)): raise ValueError('A non-string iterable is required') return 'Yay!'myfunc([9, 7])myfunc((9, 7))myfunc(numpy.arange(9))myfunc(range(9))myfunc(pandas.Series([9, 7]))myfunc('Boo') # THIS WILL RAISE A ValueError!!!!!