Is it possible to get the class name within the body of a class definition?
For example,
class Foo():
x = magic() # x should now be 'Foo'
I know that I can do this statically outside of the class body using a class method:
class Bar():
@classmethod
def magic(cls):
print cls.__name__
Bar.magic()
However this isn't what I want, I want the class name in the class body
Ok - got one more solution - this one is actually not that complex!
import traceback
def magic():
return traceback.extract_stack()[-2][2]
class Something(object):
print magic()
It will print out "Something". I'm not sure if extracted stack format is standardised in any way, but it works for python 2.6 (and 2.7 and 3.1)