Spyder console not displaying function output

Question

I'm new to coding, and as I was going through a beginner's Python walkthrough, I found that the console in Spyder won't give an output that states the class type of the argument.

Image after running type () in Spyder:

Answer 1

(Spyder maintainer here) You need to use a print if you want to see something printed in the console. In the example shown above, you need to change your code like this

print(type(13.4))

to see the result displayed in the console.