How to obtain an instance's name at runtime?
Charles G Waldman
cgw at fnal.gov
Wed Jun 23 11:27:35 EDT 1999
Dinu C. Gherman writes:
> >>> class C:
> ... pass
> ...
> >>>
> >>> c = C()
> >>> C.__class__.__name__ # ok
> 'C'
> >>> c.__name__ # not ok
> Traceback (innermost last):
> File "<interactive input>", line 0, in ?
> AttributeError: __name__
> >>>
>
> Question: How to obtain an instance's name at runtime?
> That is I'd like to see this happen (one was or the other):
>
> >>> c.__name__
> 'c'
>
> Fearing-there's-no-such-solution'ly,
Do not fear! Simply write
>>> c.__class__.__name__
'C'
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