It seems I come across the answer, then I lose it. I'm at the "lost" stage. If I have an object in Chapel, what is the equivalent of Python's
>>> thing = 'i am a thing'
>>> type(thing)
<type 'str'>
I have seen that writeln(A.type) and writeln(type(A)) both throw errors of the form
'writeln(type _array(DefaultSparseArr(real(64),2,int(64),DefaultSparseDom(2,int(64),_domain(DefaultRectangularDom(2,int(64),false))))))'
$CHPL_HOME/modules/standard/IO.chpl:3992: note: candidates are: channel.writeln(out error: syserr) [233811]
$CHPL_HOME/modules/standard/IO.chpl:3998: note: channel.writeln() [233840]
$CHPL_HOME/modules/standard/IO.chpl:4006: note: channel.writeln(const args ...?k, out error: syserr) [233876]
$CHPL_HOME/modules/standard/IO.chpl:4012: note: channel.writeln(const args ...?k) [233916]
$CHPL_HOME/modules/standard/IO.chpl:4020: note: channel.writeln(const args ...?k, style: iostyle) [233954]
$CHPL_HOME/modules/standard/IO.chpl:4047: note: channel.writeln(const args ...?k, style: iostyle, out error: syserr) [233998]
$CHPL_HOME/modules/standard/IO.chpl:4267: note: writeln(const args ...?n) [235140]
$CHPL_HOME/modules/standard/IO.chpl:4273: note: writeln() [235158]