On 15.12.13 17:33, Ethan Furman wrote:
On 12/14/2013 07:51 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:25:10AM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
Oh, yes, a %T shortcut for "length limited type name of the supplied
object" would be brilliant. We need this frequently for C level error
messages, and I almost always have to look at an existing example to
remember the exact incantation :)
What are the chances that could be made available from pure Python too?
Having to extract the name of the type is a very common need for error
messages, and I never know whether I ought to write type(obj).__name__
or obj.__class__.__name__. A %T and/or {:T} format code could be the One
Obvious Way to include the type name in strings
+1
I'd vote for including the module name in the string and using
__qualname__ instead of __name__, i.e. make "{:T}".format(obj)
equivalent to
"{0.__class__.__module__}.{0.__class__.qualname__}".format(obj).
Servus,
Walter
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