How to find the classname of an object? (was Python Documentation)

[Christopher J. Bottaro]

Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:

> Bengt Richter wrote:
> 
>>  >>> type(obj)
>>  <class '__main__.A'>
>>  >>> type(obj).mro()
>>  [<class '__main__.A'>, <class '__main__.B1'>, <class '__main__.B2'>,
>>  [<class '__main__.C'>, <type 'object'>]
>>  >>> tuple(x.__name__ for x in type(obj).mro())
>>  ('A', 'B1', 'B2', 'C', 'object')
> 
> Wow awesome, thats exactly what I was looking for.

Wait a sec...why doesn't the following code work then?

class FWException(Exception): pass
class FWA(FWException): pass
class FWB(FWA): pass
class FWC(FWB): pass
e = FWC()
print [ cl.__name__ for cl in type(e).mro() ]

Thanks again.
--C