Isn't the name of the class more reliably `type(ins).__qualname__`? At any rate, I've actually wished for a shortcut to the name of an object's class- of the name of the class object itself- many times in the past. Mostly when writing reprs and exception messages. Not sure if that is in line with OP's suggestions.
--- Ricky. "I've never met a Kentucky man who wasn't either thinking about going home or actually going home." - Happy Chandler On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 2:03 PM Todd <toddr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 1:49 PM Johan Vergeer <johanverg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I have worked with both C# and Python for a while now and there is one >> feature of C# I'm missing in the Python language. >> >> This feature is the "nameof" operator. ( >> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/nameof >> ). >> The place I use this the most in C# is in `ToString()` methods or logging >> messages. >> This makes sure the developer cannot forget to update the name of a >> member. >> >> As an example I created this `Person` class. >> >> ``` >> class Person: >> def __init__(self, name, age): >> self.name = name >> self.age = age >> >> def __repr__(self): >> return f"Person(name: {self.name}, age: {self.age})" >> ``` >> >> With the `nameof` operator this would look like the following: >> >> ``` >> class Person: >> def __init__(self, name, age): >> self.name = name >> self.age = age >> >> def __repr__(self): >> return f"{nameof(Person)}({nameof(self.name)}: {self.name}, >> {nameof(self.age)}: {self.age})" >> ``` >> >> What do you think about this? > > > We can get the name of the class with "type(ins).__name__". If you want > to get the names right it would be easier to loop over a list of strings > and use 'getattr' on them, which would mean you only have to change the > name in one place rather than two. > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/BS4TX33ADL6TQ3HG3CVBVCNO4QHS2TKK/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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