Class types

[Hans Nowak]

Chris Lyon wrote:

> How do I find out what type of object an instance is?
> 
> I can use isinstance but I have to know the class I am expecting, and
> if this involves sub-classes then I have long winded successions of
> isinstance where the order is very important because sub-classes are
> instances of their super class.

I think you want the __class__ attribute:

 >>> class Foo: pass

 >>> foo = Foo()
 >>> foo.__class__
<class __main__.Foo at 0x0090D808>

Or maybe, for your sorting purposes:

 >>> foo.__class__.__name__
'Foo'

HTH,

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