Nested List Loop

Question

I would like to loop the nest list ['sally','joe'] in the example shown below.

data = ['joe','mike',['sally','joe'],'phil']

I attempted the following:

for i in data:
    for j in (i):
        if type(j) == '<class '+"'list'>":    
            print(j)

Answer 1

Why not just isinstance:

for i in data:
    if isinstance(i,list):
        print(i)

Now the output is:

['sally', 'joe']

Answer 2

You would need to use:

if type(j) == list:
    print(j)

It doesn't currently work because type(j) returns an object of class type, not a string. You might think it is a string because when printing it in a REPL interpreter, you might see the repr(..) version.