Err, why is it insufficient?

On Wed, 2021-03-03 at 14:03 -0800, Paul Bryan wrote:

Since class is a keyword, this is unlikely. Why is type(o) not insufficient?

On Wed, 2021-03-03 at 22:59 +0100, Hans Ginzel wrote:
class c: pass
o = c()
o.__class__
<class '__main__.c'>
class(o)
    File "<stdin>", line 1
      class(o)
           ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax