如何将类型信息作为字符串获取？

Question

I have an object 'something'. Calling it returns (for example):

<CTE 'WITH' at 0x1853B0A2888>

What is the best way to get this output (or the CTE 'WITH' part) as a string? The closest I got was by using

str(something.__repr__)

which returns

"<bound method Token.__repr__ of <CTE 'WITH' at 0x1853B0A2888>>"

which I can then trim/clean up to get what I want. But I'd like to hear about better ways to go about this.

(Sorry for the vague title, I don't know the right words for phrasing it better.)

Answer 1

If we're speaking about figuring our class name of an object as a string in Python, then I can suggest you to try this:

>>> a = "adsf"
>>> a.__class__.__name__
'str'

Answer 2

You can you the builtin function id() on your object.

class A():
    def __init__(self):
         self.a = 5

def main():
    object = A()
    print(object)
    print(id(object))

will print <__main__.A instance at 0x02968558> in the first print() and 43418968 in the second. 43418968 is just 0x02968558 converted to base 10