[Tutor] Best way to convert a type into string

[Magnus Lycka]

At 15:08 2003-01-09 -0700, Bob Gailer wrote:
>repr(type(1))[7:-2] does it; I was hoping for something simpler.

str(type(1))[7:-2] is one character shorter. Really Bob,
17 characters in excess to the variable name. Isn't that
simple?

def _(x): return str(type(x))[7:-2]

_(1)
'int'

_('Hello')
'string'

Short enough?


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