On Feb 17, 8:33 pm, deelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Harlin Seritt wrote: > > Hi, > > > How does one get the name of a class from within the class code? I > > tried something like this as a guess: > > > self.__name__ > > Get the class first, then inspect its name: > > >>> class Foo(object): pass > ... > >>> f = Foo() > >>> f.__class__.__name__ > 'Foo' > >>> >
Why is the __name__ attribute not available to the instance? Why don't normal lookup rules apply (meaning that a magic attribute will be looked up on the class for instances) ? Fuzzyman http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles.shtml > HTH > > -- > d. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
