I followed the automation API tutorial: https://github.com/pulumi/automation-api-examples/blob/main/python/inline_program/main.py In a different python file I am running this code:

import pulumi

stack_ref = pulumi.StackReference("inline_s3_project/dev")
obj = {"website_url": stack_ref.get_output("website_url").apply(
    lambda s3_url: "https://" + s3_url
)}
print(obj)

The output that I am getting still shows me the object and not the value:

{'website_url': <pulumi.output.Output object at 0x109f9f2b0>}

Simple answer: the return type of

apply()

is still an output. To get the entire object you could do:

print(Output.format("{0}",obj))

and I think that will do what you want