getting object name and function name

Question

It is actually 2 questions. 1) Is there a generic way to get the class name of an instance, so if I have a class

class someClass(object):

Answer 1

use the __name__ attribute:

Class:

>>> class A:pass
>>> A.__name__
'A'
>>> A().__class__.__name__       #using an instance of that class
'A'

Function:

>>> def func():
...     print func.__name__
...     
>>> func.__name__
'func'
>>> func()
func

A quick hack for classes will be:

>>> import sys
>>> class A():
...     def func(self):
...         func_name = sys._getframe().f_code.co_name
...         class_name = self.__class__.__name__
...         print 'Executing {} from {}'.format(func_name, class_name)
...         
>>> A().func()
Executing func from A