data types

[Moritz B]

I was wondering if there is a way of finding out what kind of data type a variable in python is storing?

Something like:
> print datatype(x)
perhaps?

Which should return string, integer, float or list etc.

~ Mo

[Moritz B]

hehe ok I just found out how to do it, while randomly trying out stuff.
>type(x) returns the data type of x

so:
> fg=[2,5,3,"hello"]
> print type(fg)
would give you:
> <type 'list'>

~ Mo

[Reticulatus]

You were pretty close:

>>> x = "Hello"
>>> type(x)
<type 'str'>

Best Regards,

Chris

[Reticulatus]

Sorry! Hadn't noticed you had already found the answer!

Best Regards,

Chris