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Nov 7, 2009, 10:50 AM
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Re: how to display the return type of an os method?
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On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day a écrit :
> > once again, a thoroughly newbie question but what's the quickest way
> > to display the return type of, say, os.stat()? i can obviously do
> > this in two steps:
> >
> >>>> x=os.stat('/etc/passwd')
> >>>> type(x)
> > <class 'posix.stat_result'>
> >
> > i'd just like to see that os.stat() returns a posix.stat_result
> > object in one line.
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> => type(os.stat('/etc/passwd'))
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> But reading the doc might help too:
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> => help(os.stat)
never mind, i realize now it was a dumb question since the return
type is based on the routine logic, of course. argh. carry on.
rday
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