On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 11:29:57 +0100, Xiao-Qin Xia <xx758 at cam.ac.uk> wrote: >Class MyClass: pass >myobj = MyClass() >if myobj.__class__.__name__ == "MyClass": print "OK!" >if myobj.__class__ == MyClass: print "OK!" Also very useful to know, thanks! Especially that last one never occured to me, eg: >print MyClass __main__.MyClass J.