type()
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Published Apr 12, 2022Updated Jul 11, 2022
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The type()
function returns the data type of the argument passed to it. When the argument is an instance of a class, it returns the class that it is an instance of.
Syntax
type(some_object)
The type()
function primarily accepts some_object
as a parameter, which can be any of Python’s data types.
Example
The type()
function can be used to confirm the data type of the object spam
:
spam = 10print(type(spam))# Output: int
Codebyte Example
The following example uses the type()
function to return the data type of the class instance variable, home
:
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