How to find type of a variable in Python

Hi Coder! In this article, we will learn how to find the variable type in Python. Before going into the implementation part let us know a little about the type() function.

The type() function in Python

Syntax: type(object)

The type() function in Python takes an object as a parameter and returns the class type of the object.
Example:
Let n = 1 then
type(n) will return the integer class type.

Finding the type of a variable

Let us first declare a few variables/objects to find their class types.

Integer
```
int_var = 100
```
Float
```
float_var = 139.0
```
String
```
string_var = "HelloWorld"
```
Complex
```
complex_var = 7+2.0j
```
Bool
```
bool_var = False
```
List
```
list_object = [1,2,3,"CodeSpeedy"]
```
Tuple
```
tuple_object = (1.0, 'Python')
```
Set
```
set_object = {(2)}
```

Dictionary

dictionary_object = {1:'Code',2:'Hello'}

User-defined Class
Let us create a user-defined class and also create an object of it.
```
class MyClass:
    pass
MyClass_object = MyClass()
```

Python code to check data type of a variable

Now, let us try to print the types of all the objects that we created.

print(type(int_var))
print(type(float_var))
print(type(string_var))
print(type(complex_var))
print(type(bool_var))
print(type(list_object))
print(type(tuple_object))
print(type(set_object))
print(type(dictionary_object))
print(type(MyClass_object))

Program

class MyClass:
    pass
int_var = 100
float_var = 139.0
string_var = "HelloWorld"
complex_var = 7+2.0j
bool_var = False
MyClass_object = MyClass()
list_object = [1,2,3,"CodeSpeedy"]
tuple_object = (1.0,'Python')
set_object = {(2)}
dictionary_object = {1:'Code',2:'Hello'}

print(type(int_var))
print(type(float_var))
print(type(string_var))
print(type(complex_var))
print(type(bool_var))
print(type(list_object))
print(type(tuple_object))
print(type(set_object))
print(type(dictionary_object))
print(type(MyClass_object))

Output

<class 'int'>
<class 'float'>
<class 'str'>
<class 'complex'>
<class 'bool'>
<class 'list'>
<class 'tuple'>
<class 'set'>
<class 'dict'>
<class '__main__.MyClass'>

Yahoo! We have learned to find the type of variables in python. In case of any doubts feel free to post them below.
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