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you can't, it's like working with futures.
You can use the output in an apply, but you can't just get the actual value.

What are you trying to accomplish?

passing the subnets list to an ELB resource as input

Can't you just pass it as is (wrapped in an Output) to the ELB resource?

```AssertionError: Unexpected type. Expected 'list' got '&lt;class 'str'&gt;'```

but when i print the type of the public_subnets i get this
```print(type(public_subnets))
&lt;class 'pulumi.output.Output'&gt;```

So Output is a wrapper object.

I think the issue might be that you have an Output[Str] when you want an Output[List[str]]

you could maybe try adding some debugging/print statements in the apply lambda to see what the actual value is

the output is an output from another stack that i exported it like this
```pulumi.export("public_subnets", public_subnets.ids)```

I'm not sure how output serialization/deserialization works

if you stop with a break point inside the applys lambda you will have a string. because that runs inside pulumi engine.

check this

```pritunl_output = instance.public_ip.apply(
            lambda public_ip: {
                "host": f"https://{public_ip}",
            },
        )
pulumi.export("pritunl-data", pritunl_output)```

```import ipdb
clusters = aws.eks.get_clusters()
def method(args):
    ipdb.set_trace()
    print(args)

pulumi.Output.all(clusters).apply(
    lambda args: method(args),
)```
for example

umm, nvm guys i figured it out thanks any way