Python type()

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Published Apr 12, 2022Updated Jul 11, 2022

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.

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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 = 10


print(type(spam))


# Output: int

Codebyte Example

The following example uses the type() function to return the data type of the class instance variable, home:

Code
Output


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