Lakshya Tyagi

Posted on Dec 3, 2020

Correct syntax to output the type of variable or object?

#python #quiz #beginners #challenge

print(type(x))
print(typeof(x))
print(typeof x)
print(typeOf(x))

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Dave Cridland • Dec 3 '20 • Edited

Well, obviously you could use print(type(x)), but that's not very useful, since type doesn't return a string but a class, and then print will call str() on it, so you typically and up with the repr() of the class:

print(type(''))  # <class 'str'>

What you can do is hit the introspection bits, for example:

x = ''
print(''.join((x.__class__.__module__, '.', x.__class__.__name__)))  # builtins.str

Which is a bit prettier.

Serghei Iakovlev • Dec 3 '20

str.join() takes exactly one argument (3 given) :)

Dave Cridland • Dec 3 '20

Nice catch - I edited to pass in a tuple rather than the args directly.

Thanks for the demonstration that good code review is important!

J Wylie • Dec 3 '20

print(type(x))

Vedant Chainani • Dec 3 '20

print(type(x))

Mukesh Gurpude • Dec 3 '20

print(type(x))

Dibyadarshan Rath • Dec 3 '20

ProMikeCoder2020 • Dec 9 '20 • Edited

The correct answer is the answr number one

Mehrnoosh H. Kashani • Dec 3 '20

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