Proper Way of checking for a collections class

[Gary Coulbourne]

Howdy,

I've been trying to find a good idiom for testing if the input to a
function is one of the collections classes... the best I could do is this:

if hasattr(thing_to_test, '__iter__'):
...

Is this right? Or, is there a better way besides a cascade of type()
tests?

Thanks!

Peace,
Gary