Get name of class without instance

[David Stanek]

Try Foo.__name__ if Foo is a class object.

On 6/24/09, Bryan <bryanvick at gmail.com> wrote:
> Given a class:
>
> class Foo(object):
>     pass
>
> How can I get the name "Foo" without having an instance of the class?
>
> str(Foo) gives me more than just the name Foo.   "__main__.Account"
> Foo.__class__.__name__ gives me "type"
>
> I don't want to do:
> Foo().__class__.__name__ if possible.  I would rather avoid the
> constructor.  I just want to get a string "Foo"
>
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