How to get a specific class name as a string?

Question

I want to avoid calling a lot of isinstance() functions, so I'm looking for a way to get the concrete class name for an instance variable as a string.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

  instance.__class__.__name__ 

Example:

 >>> class A(): pass >>> a = A() >>> a.__class__.__name__ 'A' 

Answer 2

 <object>.__class__.__name__ 

Answer 3

you can also create a dict with the classes themselves as keys, not necessarily with class names

 typefunc={ int:lambda x: x*2, str:lambda s:'(*(%s)*)'%s } def transform (param): print typefunc[type(param)](param) transform (1) >>> 2 transform ("hi") >>> (*(hi)*) 

here typefunc is a dict that displays a function for each type. transform gets this function and applies it to the parameter.

Of course, it would be much better to use the "real" OOP