Use type(x).__name__ to get the name of the type instead of parsing

repr(type(x)).

diff --git a/Lib/repr.py b/Lib/repr.py
index f9cfcf647aa76648b1ff6da1ebc2d414d5dba43d..f418d1a5f60d92ca56ad49258c37b99d5e5d87fb 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/repr.py
+++ b/Lib/repr.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ class Repr:
     def repr(self, x):
         return self.repr1(x, self.maxlevel)
     def repr1(self, x, level):
-        typename = `type(x)`[7:-2] # "<type '......'>"
+        typename = type(x).__name__
         if ' ' in typename:
             parts = typename.split()
             typename = '_'.join(parts)