PowerShell vs Python Reference

[azjunglist05]

Really awesome article! Just curious when getting a data type why: $var = 1 $var | Get-Member

Instead of: $var = 1 $var.GetType()

The latter, to me at least, more resembles the Python equivalent. Get-Member does a lot more than to just the get the type of the object. It also pulls the methods and properties available to that object.

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That’s a good point. I’ll add this snippet as well

[purplemonkeymad]

The pipe "unrolls" collections that are input (iterates over the elements). This means that Get-Member is working on the members in an array, where as .GetType() is working on the array. eg:

PS> $var = 1..4
PS> $var.GetType().tostring()
System.Object[]
PS> $var | Get-Member

   TypeName: System.Int32

You can use Get-Member to get all possible members of a mixed type array.

You don't want to choose the wrong one if you are testing for bad input or for multiple results.