"Steven Bethard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Randall Smith wrote:
> > Jive Dadson wrote:
> >
> >> The traceback routine prints out stuff like,
> >>
> >> NameError: global name 'foo' is not defined
> >>
> >> NameError is a standard exception type.
> >>
> >> What if I want to print out something like that?
> >> I've determined that "global name 'foo' is not defined" comes from the
> >> __str__ member of the exception object.
> >> Where does it find the string "NameError"? In general, if I have an
> >> object, is there a way to obtain the name of the type of the object?
> >>
> >> Thankee.
> >
> > type(object) ?
>
> Doesn't work for old-style classes like exceptions:
>
> py> e = NameError("global name 'foo' is not defined")
> py> type(e)
> <type 'instance'>
> py> type(e).__name__
> 'instance'
>
> For old-style classes, you'll need to go through __class__
>
> py> e.__class__
> <class exceptions.NameError at 0x00934900>
> py> e.__class__.__name__
> 'NameError'
>
> STeVe
To sum up:
def typename(obj):
try:
return obj.__class__.__name__
except AttributeError:
return type(obj).__name__
George
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