On 18 Feb 2007 04:24:47 -0800, "Fuzzyman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Feb 17, 8:33 pm, deelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Harlin Seritt wrote: >> > Hi, >> >> > How does one get the name of a class from within the class code? I >> > tried something like this as a guess: >> >> > self.__name__ >> >> Get the class first, then inspect its name: >> >> >>> class Foo(object): pass >> ... >> >>> f = Foo() >> >>> f.__class__.__name__ >> 'Foo' >> >>> >> > > >Why is the __name__ attribute not available to the instance? Why don't >normal lookup rules apply (meaning that a magic attribute will be >looked up on the class for instances) ? Good question! >>> f = Foo() >>> dir(f) ['__class__', '__delattr__', '__dict__', '__doc__', '__getattribute__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__module__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__str__', '__weakref__'] >>> dir(f.__class__) ['__class__', '__delattr__', '__dict__', '__doc__', '__getattribute__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__module__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__str__', '__weakref__'] >>> Where is '__name__' ? Dan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
