Just trying to figure out what the difference is between .type() method and type() function. To me, I don't see why they are returning different outputs although they seem to be doing the same thing (ie. determining the type of the object)
x = 1
print(x.type())
returns: AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'type'
whereas
x = 1
print(type(x))
returns: <class 'int'>
Anyone have any ideas?
There is no such thing as a .type() method for int. That is what the first message is saying. So use the second version and you are fine.
type() is a built-in function, which returns the type of the object you pass in as the parameter.
The type(object) function returns the class an object is an instance of. For example, type(42) tells you that 42 is an int.
If you were to make a custom class, using type(object) where object is an instance of the new class would return the class itself.
You can also look into using the isinstance function, which is widely considered to be more Pythonic.
The .type() method doesn’t exist, at lease not for ints. That’s why you get an error there.
