Getting a class name

[Fuzzyman]

On Feb 18, 11:54 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers
<bdesth.quelquech... at free.quelquepart.fr> wrote:
> Gabriel Genellina a écrit :
>
> > En Sun, 18 Feb 2007 14:14:41 -0300, goodwolf <Robert.Ka... at gmail.com>
> > escribió:
>
> >> On Feb 18, 9:17 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl... at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
>
> >>> En Sun, 18 Feb 2007 04:20:33 -0300, goodwolf <Robert.Ka... at gmail.com>
> >>> escribió:
>
> >>> > I suppose that you wont get class name into its code (or before
> >>> > definition end) but not into a method definition.
>
> >>> > import sys
>
> >>> > def getCodeName(deap=0):
> >>> >     return sys._getframe(deap+1).f_code.co_name
>
> >>> > class MyClass (object):
> >>> >     name = getCodeName() + '!'
>
> >>> What's the advantage over MyClass.__name__?
>
> >>> --
> >>> Gabriel Genellina
>
> >>>>> class C(object):
>
> >> ...     name = C.__name__
> >> ...
> >> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> >>   File "<stdin>", line 2, in C
> >> NameError: name 'C' is not defined
>
> > I were asking, why do you want a "name" attribute since "__name__"
> > already  exists and has the needed information. And worst, using an
> > internal  implementation function to do such task.
>
> This might be useful to avoid metaclass hacks when trying to initialize
> a class attribute that would require the class name. (my 2 cents)

It's still an ugly hack. :-)

(But a nice implementation detail to know about none-the-less.)

Fuzzyman
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