How to detect the type of widget?
There are several ways to get the name of the widget:
- using
__class__
:
print(self.lbl.__class__.__name__)
- using QMetaObject:
print(self.lbl.metaObject().className())
These previous methods return a string with the name of the class, but if you want to verify if an object belongs to a class you can use isinstance()
:
is_label = isinstance(self.lbl, QLabel)
Another option is to use type()
but it is not recommended, if you want to get more information about isinstance()
and type()
read the following: What are the differences between type() and isinstance()?
You can just use the standard Python means of checking an object type:
print(type(self.lbl))
print(isinstance(self.lbl, QLabel)