[Tutor] Introspecting class and method names

[Brian van den Broek]

Tim Johnson said unto the world upon 2005-12-14 18:02:
> I was pleasantly surprised to notice in a previous thread that python
> can automagically retrieve a class name thru __class__.__name__
> 1)Can someone point me to further documentation on this topic?
> 2)Is it possible for the name of a class method to be 
>   programmatically retrieved from within the scope of the method?
>   If so, how? and pointers to docs would be welcome also.
> 
> thanks

Hi Tim,

I'm glad that other got use out of Kent's answers to my questions :-) 
(Thanks again Kent.)

For points related to (2), you might want to check out the inspect 
module, Tim. I don't immediately see a way to accomplish (2), but I've 
not looked closely. However, if these points interest you, much of 
inspect will be of likely interest, too.

Best,

Brian vdB