class declaration shortcut

Michele Simionato michele.simionato at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 04:23:39 EST 2007


On Mar 1, 9:40 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_... at gmx.net> wrote:
> In <54msaoF21c6h... at mid.individual.net>, Bjoern Schliessmann wrote:
>
> > But what's it (__name__) good for?
>
> As objects don't know to which name they are bound, that's a good way to
> give some information in stack traces or when doing introspection.

Also, the name is used by pickle to find the class of pickled
instances.

 Michele Simionato




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