Get variable type

This should be a simple question; forgive me if this is in the docs somewhere but I've searched around and cant find it.

I would like to know how to get the type of a variable. In vanilla python, I can do something like this:

x = "foo"
y = type(x)
print(y.__name__)

and it will print:
'str'

So in vanilla python I can use the type() function to check variable type for if statements and so forth. However, obviously in Sikuli "type()" is reserved for typing on the keyboard. Can i still access the original "type()" in Sikuli?

Thanks,

Paul