Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Kirk Strauser wrote:
>>>>> class foo(object): >>>>> pass >> >> how can I find its name, such as: >> >>>>> b = foo > I suppose you mean b = foo() ? Actually, I meant 'b = foo' in this case - I want to find the name of the class that b references, but the name of an instance (which may have zero or many references to it). > The name of a class is in the attribute '__name__' of the class. The > class of an object is in the attribute '__class__' of the object. I swear that didn't work earlier. Honest. :-) OK, now for the good stuff. In the code below, how can I find the name of the class that 'bar' belongs to: >>> class Foo(object): ... def bar(self): ... pass ... >>> b = Foo.bar >>> dir(b) ['__call__', '__class__', '__cmp__', '__delattr__', '__doc__', '__get__', '__getattribute__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__str__', 'im_class', 'im_func', 'im_self'] >>> b.__class__ <type 'instancemethod'> >>> b.__class__.__name__ 'instancemethod' I was sort of hoping that it would print 'Foo'. -- Kirk Strauser -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
