Get class name of django model

Question

Try Book.__name__.

Django models are derived from the ModelBase, which is the Metaclass for all models.

Instead of doing Book.__class__.__name__ on class itself, if you do it over a book object, then book_object.__class__.__name__ will give you 'Book' (i.e the name of the model)

As suggested by the answer above, you can use str(Book._meta).

This question is quite old, but I found the following helpful (tested on Django 1.11, but might work on older...), as you may also have the same model name from multiple apps.

Assuming Book is in my_app:

print(Book._meta.object_name)
# Book

print(Book._meta.model_name)
# book

print(Book._meta.app_label)
# my_app

I got class name by using,

str(Book._meta)

Book.__class__.__name__  -> this will give you the ModelBase

class Book(models.Model):
  [..]   
  def class_name(self):
    return self.__class__.__name__

With this way, whenever you called book.class_name() in python code (also in the template {{book.class_name}}) it will return class name which is 'Book'.

You could also retrieve the model name from the model's Meta class. This works on the model class itself as well as any instance of it:

# Model definition
class Book(models.Model):
    # fields...

    class Meta:
        verbose_name = 'book'
        verbose_name_plural = 'books'


# Get some model
book = Book.objects.first()

# Get the model name
book._meta.verbose_name

Setting verbose_name and verbose_name_plural is optional. Django will infer these values from the name of the model class (you may have noticed the use of those values in the admin site).

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/ref/models/options/#verbose-name