More elegant to get a name: o.__class__.__name__

[Carl Banks]

alf wrote:
> Hi,
> is there a more elegant way to get o.__class__.__name__. For instance I
> would imagine name(o).

def name_of_type(o):
    return o.__class__.__name__

name_of_type(o)


Carl Banks

P.S. name(o) suggests it's the name of the object, not the type
P.P.S. you could use type(o).__name__ but it doesn't work for old-style
classes