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# get_known_type

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    <div className="dt sig sig-object py" id="gpudb.GPUdb.get_known_type"> <span className="sig-name descname"><span className="pre">get\_known\_type</span></span><span className="sig-paren">(</span><span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">type\_id</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">lookup\_type</span></span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">True</span></span></span><span className="sig-paren">)</span><a href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-python/blob/master/gpudb/gpudb.py#L8070"><span className="viewcode-link"><span className="pre">\[source]</span></span></a></div>

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      <p>Given an type ID, return any associated known type; if none is found, then optionally try to look it up and save it. Otherwise, return None.</p>
      <p><strong>Parameters</strong></p>

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            <div className="dt">type\_id (<span className="em">str</span>) –</div>

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              <p>The ID for the type.</p>
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              <p>If True, then if the type is not already found, then to look it up by invoking <a className="reference internal" href="#gpudb.GPUdb.show_types" title="gpudb.GPUdb.show_types"><code className="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">show\_types()</span></code></a>, save it for the future, and return it.</p>
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      <p><strong>Returns</strong></p>

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          <p>The associated RecordType, if found (<span className="em">or looked up</span>) –</p>
          <p>otherwise.</p>
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