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```deployment_stack = StackReference('infra.deploy')

b81_zone_id = deployment_stack.get_output('THISDOESNOTEXIST_RETURNS_OUTPUT')```


I just wonder,
why
`print(b81_zone_id.apply(lambda c: print(c)))`
does not work but when I export it in `pulumi.export`, it works...
A know async and apply, but why `apply()` did not work on my output?

maybe it doesn't work cause it doesn't exist and it waits forever for that value to be populated?

I tried... both, with existing and non-existing.
the print with lambda(print) is always Output class

what if you print just at the end? without printing within the lambda?
print(b81_zone_id.apply(lambda c: c))

you can try this one:
def p(x):
    print(x)

deployment_stack.get_output('FOO').apply(lambda c: p(c))

I think the outer print messes things here

<@U012NSFQTDW> could you share a complete snippet of what code you are using that is behaving in an unexpected way?  I’d like to try to reproduce what you are seeing. 

```deployment_stack = StackReference('infra.deploy')

example1 = deployment_stack.get_output('b81_zone_name')  # this exist
example2 = deployment_stack.get_output('thisdoesnotexist')

print(example1.apply(lambda c:print(c)))
print(example2.apply(lambda c:print(c)))

pulumi.export('example1', example1)  #returns real value
pulumi.export('example2', example2)  #returns None```

the outputs of this is:

```    &lt;pulumi.output.Output object at 0x10e9f2110&gt;
    &lt;pulumi.output.Output object at 0x10e9f2390&gt;
    my_value_from_infra.deploy
    None```


The comment code is correct...
it returns None indeed but when I try to debug, I can't trust print :disappointed:

I know it's pipe dream, but if I could put here
`ipython.embed()` and debug from ipython, it would make my life easier

<@UUL4J2Y1L> I tried also like a function...
it didn't work

seems like it would be really helpful to have a bunch of example uses of handling outputs

it seems this is a bug...
even when I run
`pulumi_gcp.dns.RecordSet("develop." + example1)` I get string of output object...

This what runs in GCP API:

&gt;   Error creating DNS RecordSet: googleapi: Error 400: Invalid value for 'entity.change.additions[0].name': 'develop.&lt;pulumi.output.Output object at 0x10914aed0&gt;', invalid

ok, I'm using Output.all and it works...
but this starlark is not easier then any Declarative languages around... :disappointed: