How to get the name of an exception that was caught in Python?

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Here are a few different ways to get the name of the class of the exception:

  1. type(exception).__name__
  2. exception.__class__.__name__
  3. exception.__class__.__qualname__

e.g.,

try:
    foo = bar
except Exception as exception:
    assert type(exception).__name__ == 'NameError'
    assert exception.__class__.__name__ == 'NameError'
    assert exception.__class__.__qualname__ == 'NameError'

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