[Tutor] Best way to convert a type into string

[Bob Gailer]

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At 12:38 PM 1/10/2003 +0000, Gon=E7alo Rodrigues wrote:

> > >>> type(1)
> > <type 'int'>
> >
> > What's the best way to get the string "int" from this?
>
>Here is the simplest:
>
> >>> print type(1).__name__
>int

That's what I was looking for. Something already in the language. How does=
=20
one discover things like this? Are they in the documentation? dir(type(1))=
=20
reveals a lot of keys, but __name__ is not amongst them.

Bob Gailer
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