Answer 1

Informations that can be retrieved from a var and/or an object:
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>>> i = 1

>>> print(i) # display variable content
1

>>> print(type(i)) # display his type
<type 'int'>

>>> print(i.__class__) # display his class
<type 'int'>

>>> print(i.__class__.__name__) # display his class name
int

>>> print(dir(i)) # display methods of the object
['__abs__', '__add__', '__and__', '__class__', '__cmp__', '__coerce__', '__delattr__', '__div__', '__divmod__', '__doc__', '__float__', '__floordiv__', '__format__', '__getattribute__', '__getnewargs__', '__hash__', '__hex__', '__index__', '__init__', '__int__', '__invert__', '__long__', '__lshift__', '__mod__', '__mul__', '__neg__', '__new__', '__nonzero__', '__oct__', '__or__', '__pos__', '__pow__', '__radd__', '__rand__', '__rdiv__', '__rdivmod__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__rfloordiv__', '__rlshift__', '__rmod__', '__rmul__', '__ror__', '__rpow__', '__rrshift__', '__rshift__', '__rsub__', '__rtruediv__', '__rxor__', '__setattr__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__sub__', '__subclasshook__', '__truediv__', '__trunc__', '__xor__', 'bit_length', 'conjugate', 'denominator', 'imag', 'numerator', 'real']

>>> help(i) # display help about the object
Help on int object:

class int(object)
| int(x[, base]) -> integer
|
| Convert a string or number to an integer, if possible. A floating point
| argument will be truncated towards zero (this does not include a string
| representation of a floating point number!) When converting a string, use
| the optional base. It is an error to supply a base when converting a
| non-string. If base is zero, the proper base is guessed based on the
| string content. If the argument is outside the integer range a
| long object will be returned instead.
|
| Methods defined here:
|
| __abs__(...)
| x.__abs__() <==> abs(x)
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