type Property (Python)
The type
property of a Variable
object gets or sets the variable
type--numeric or string. The variable type for numeric variables is
0. The variable type for string variables is an integer equal to the
defined length of the string (maximum of 32767).
Example
varObj = datasetObj.varlist['strvar']
#Get the variable type
type = varObj.type
#Set the variable type to a string of length 10
varObj.type = 10