how to display the return type of an os method?

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

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. 

=> type(os.stat('/etc/passwd'))

But reading the doc might help too:

=> help(os.stat)