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Once I export a variable like : pulumi.export("NodeName", node) . (btw node is of type pulumi.Output I guess). How do I access it and print it ? print(NodeName) doesnt work.

The goal of `pulumi.export` is to make it available outside of Pulumi.  You can `pulumi stack output` to get all outputs or `pulumi stack output NodeName` to get just that one.

From within the program, you can print an output with:

`node.apply(lambda n: print(n))` or just `node.apply(print)`

Note that those will only print the value once it is available.

You get the value within the function passed to apply.  You can write a `def myfunc(n): ` and then write code within that function that does whatever you want, and call `node.apply(myfunc)`.

See <https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/programming-model/#outputs> for much more detail on this.

```h = str
def myfunc(n):
    h = n

node.apply(myfunc)

print ( "h = {}".format(h))  # prints  h = &lt;class 'str'&gt;```

The equivalent of what you are trying to do there in Pulumi would be:

```def myfunc(n):
    print ( "n = {}".format(n)) 
node.apply(myfunc)```
If your real example is something different than this - please share it and I can suggest how to structure in Pulumi.