how to print class names, not references

[Bengt Richter]

On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 01:36:53 +0000, "a.clarke11" <a.clarke11 at pop.ntlworld.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>I wrote a function of x, where later in the program x is substituted by
>class names. In the function, print x is used, but this returns
><__main__.Player instance at 0x38b1ce90> rather than the plain old class
>name that  I wanted.
>How can I print the name instead?
>Thanks for your help, Pythoneers...
>
 >>> class CwithClassName:
 ...     pass
 ...
 >>> c = CwithClassName()
 >>> c
 <__main__.CwithClassName instance at 0x0084AF40>
 >>> Calias = CwithClassName
 >>> calias = c
 >>> Calias
 <class __main__.CwithClassName at 0x0084B0B0>
 >>> calias
 <__main__.CwithClassName instance at 0x0084AF40>
 >>> Calias.__name__
 'CwithClassName'
 >>> calias.__name__
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
 AttributeError: CwithClassName instance has no attribute '__name__'
 >>> calias.__class__.__name__
 'CwithClassName'

Does any of that help?

Regards,
Bengt Richter