Get parent class name? [duplicate]

Solution 1:

From the documentation: https://docs.python.org/2/reference/datamodel.html#the-standard-type-hierarchy

Class objects have a __name__ attribute. It might cleaner to introspect the base class(es) through the __bases__ attr of the derived class (if the code is to live in the derived class for example).

>>> class Base(object):
...     pass
...
>>> class Derived(Base):
...     def print_base(self):
...         for base in self.__class__.__bases__:
...             print base.__name__
...
>>> foo = Derived()
>>> foo.print_base()
Base

Solution 2:

inspect.getmro(cls)

Return a tuple of class cls’s base classes, including cls, in method resolution order. No class appears more than once in this tuple. Note that the method resolution order depends on cls’s type. Unless a very peculiar user-defined metatype is in use, cls will be the first element of the tuple.

import inspect
inspect.getmro(B)

result will be:

(<class '__main__.B'>, <class '__main__.A'>, <type 'object'>)

First element is the class itself, second element is always first of the parents. After that things can get bit more complicated.