In admin, how can I say what custom post type I'm editing?

Found an answer by myself. Anyway, I’d really like if someone could tell me if it’s a good way to achieve my goal or not.

$post_type = isset($_GET['post_type']) ? $_GET['post_type'] : (isset($_GET['post']) ? get_post_type($_GET['post']) : null );

I place this code in a funcion called by ‘load-post.php’ and ‘load-post-new.php’ hooks. I can then see if $post_type is == ‘my_custom_post_name’. It works.

The reason of the chained compressed if statement is that in the ‘post-new.php’ page I’ve got $_GET[‘post_type’], while in the ‘post.php’ page I can’t get it directly (at least it seems so.. There’s no $_GET[‘post_type’]), but I can get the post_type by passing the ID to get_post_type, and I get that ID with $_GET[‘post’].

OK. So, again, is this a good practice? Am I doing it the right way?