Is this too clever?

clever.py

def accepts_two_types(v):
    if type(v) == type(1):
        print "%s is an integer" % (v)
    elif type(v) == type(''):
        print "%s is assumed to be a string" % (v)
    else:
        raise TypeError, "not a string or int!"

if __name__ == "__main__":
	accepts_two_types(42)
	accepts_two_types("forty two")