How can I get the name of a python class?

Question

When I have an object foo, I can get it's class object via

str(foo.__class__)

What I would need however is only the name of the class ("Foo" for example), the above would give me something along the lines of

"<class 'my.package.Foo'>"

I know I can get it quite easily with a regexp, but I would like to know if there's a more "clean" way.

Answer 1

Try

__class__.__name__

Answer 2

foo.__class__.__name__ should give you result you need.

Answer 3

Python 3.0.1 (r301:69561, Feb 13 2009, 20:04:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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>>> class foo:
...     x = 1
...
>>> f = foo()
>>> f.__class__.__name__
'foo'
>>>