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More elegant to get a name: o.__class__.__n ame__

alf
Hi,
is there a more elegant way to get o.__class__.__n ame__. For instance I
would imagine name(o).

--
alf
Nov 30 '06 #1
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alf wrote:
Hi,
is there a more elegant way to get o.__class__.__n ame__. For instance I
would imagine name(o).
def name_of_type(o) :
return o.__class__.__n ame__

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

Nov 30 '06 #2
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Hi,
is there a more elegant way to get o.__class__.__n ame__. For instance I
would imagine name(o).

--
alf
>>name = lambda o : o.__class__.__n ame__
name(1)
'int'

Go for it!

-- Paul
Nov 30 '06 #3
Carl Banks wrote:
alf wrote:
Hi,
is there a more elegant way to get o.__class__.__n ame__. For instance I
would imagine name(o).

def name_of_type(o) :
return o.__class__.__n ame__

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
You mean it doesn't work for old-style instances; OTOH __class__
doesn't work for old style classes:
>>class X: pass
....
>>X.__class__
AttributeError: class X has no attribute '__class__'

So to handle all cases, you'd have to go with:

def typename(o):
try: cls = o.__class__
except AttributeError: cls = type(o)
return cls.__name__
# or for fully qualified names
# return '%s.%s' % (cls.__module__ , cls.__name__)

George

Dec 1 '06 #4
alf
alf wrote:
Hi,
is there a more elegant way to get o.__class__.__n ame__. For instance I
would imagine name(o).
decided to stick to o.__class__.__n ame__ for readibility.

--
alfz1
Dec 9 '06 #5

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