@Marvin how do I access the result of a task that was called with task(return_state = True),

When you call a task with

task(return_state=True)

, it returns a

State

object instead of the direct result. To access the result from this state, you can use the

get_state_result

function, which retrieves the result from the state, handling any necessary error management. Here's a basic example of how you might access the result:

python
from prefect import task, flow
from prefect.states import get_state_result

@task
def my_task():
    return "Hello, World!"

@flow
def my_flow():
    state = my_task(return_state=True)
    result = get_state_result(state)
    print(result)

my_flow()

In this example,

get_state_result(state)

fetches the result from the state object returned by

my_task

. You can find more about how states work in Prefect by reviewing the Prefect states module. If you need more details about the

task

function, you can explore the Prefect tasks module.