Getting a class name from within main

Robin Becker robin at reportlab.com
Wed Feb 7 05:03:13 EST 2007


bg_ie at yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Lets say I have the following class -
> 
> class MyClass:
> 	def __init__(self):
> 		print (__name__.split("."))[-1]
> 
> if __name__ == '__main__':
> 	MyClassName = "MyClass"
> 
> I can print the name of the class from within the class scope as seen
> above in the init, but is there any way of printing it from within the
> main without creating an object of the MyClass type. I need to assign
> the name of the class within my script, to a variable in main.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Barry.
> 

 >>> class A:
... 	pass
...
 >>> print A.__name__
A
 >>>
-- 
Robin Becker




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