Finding the name of a class

[Larry Bates]

Kirk Strauser wrote:
> Given a class:
> 
>>>> class foo(object):
>>>>     pass
> 
> how can I find its name, such as:
> 
>>>> b = foo
>>>> print something(b)
> 'foo'
> 
> I'm writing a trace() decorator for the sake of practice, and am trying to
> print the name of the class that a traced method belongs to.  This seems
> like it should be easy, but I think I've been staring at the problem too
> long.

print print b.__class__.__name__  gives what you want

-Larry Bates