Finding the name of a class

[Erik Max Francis]

"Edward C. Jones" wrote:

> Is there a function or method that returns the name of a class or
> class
> instance?
> 
> class X(object):
>      pass
> 
> X.amethod() or X().amethod() should return the string "X".
> 
> X().__class__ returns "<class '__main__.X'>" which I could parse. Ugh.
> 
> Or I could use module pyclbr. Ugh**2.

Use the __name__ attribute:

>>> class C: pass
... 
>>> C.__name__
'C'
>>> C().__class__.__name__
'C'

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