Randall Smith wrote:
Jive Dadson wrote:
The traceback routine prints out stuff like,
NameError: global name 'foo' is not defined
NameError is a standard exception type.
What if I want to print out something like that?
I've determined that "global name 'foo' is not defined" comes from the
__str__ member of the exception object.
Where does it find the string "NameError"? In general, if I have an
object, is there a way to obtain the name of the type of the object?
Thankee.
type(object) ?
Doesn't work for old-style classes like exceptions:
py> e = NameError("global name 'foo' is not defined")
py> type(e)
<type 'instance'>
py> type(e).__name__
'instance'
For old-style classes, you'll need to go through __class__
py> e.__class__
<class exceptions.NameError at 0x00934900>
py> e.__class__.__name__
'NameError'
STeVe
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