Datatypes

Datatype is another important block of the instruction. Datatype specifies the target of the instruction, i.e. what the instruction should return. Datatype is also a way to group a set of filters together. While each datatype has it’s own filters, there are some of them which are shared across different datatypes. It is also worth noting that each datatype is also a filter by itself, that is why it is possible to use it inside instructions.

Note

All examples are written using Python 2. They may have a slightly different syntax in Python 3.

Note

To better illustrate how datatypes and filters work, all examples in this section will be shown using the find command. For the sake of readability all examples won’t be wrapped in a list() call, however keep in mind that in reality find command returns it’s results in the form of generator object.

• bool
• string
• unicode
• bytes
• bytearray
• numeric
• int
• float
• long
• complex
• iterable
• list
• tuple
• set
• frozenset
• dict