Convert type() to string?

[Alex Martelli]

Robert Oschler wrote:

> I want to be able to print out the type() of a string for a "structure
> walker" I'm writing.  I need to be able to prepend a string of pad
> characters to the type() so the following:
> 
> print padstr + type(x)
> 
> won't work because type() does not return a string.  What's a good way to
> do
> this?  I'm using Python 2.1 + Python 2.2 (2.1 for Jython).

Either

print "%s%s" % (padstr, type(x))

or

print padstr + str(type(x))

(or many other variations) will work for your purposes.


Alex