# HG changeset patch
# User Mike Miller <mtmiller@octave.org>
# Date 1470166087 25200
# Node ID ccd9fcaae5f8bec7b5103e26502ea1e91a6a2d63
# Parent  9e8faa439d1de9ffa323e9b8d65a0b5b1acdacf4
pyobject: rename "whatclass" to "class", make Matlab compatible

* @pyobject/pyobject.m (class): Rename from "whatclass".  Return the string
name of the object's type, with "py" namespace prefix.  Add tests.

diff -r 9e8faa439d1d -r ccd9fcaae5f8 @pyobject/pyobject.m
--- a/@pyobject/pyobject.m	Tue Aug 02 12:11:02 2016 -0700
+++ b/@pyobject/pyobject.m	Tue Aug 02 12:28:07 2016 -0700
@@ -145,9 +145,12 @@
       endif
     endfunction
 
-    function s = whatclass (x)
+    function s = class (x)
       idx = struct ("type", ".", "subs", "__class__");
-      s = subsref (x, idx);
+      class_ref = subsref (x, idx);
+      idx = struct ("type", ".", "subs", "__name__");
+      s = subsref (class_ref, idx);
+      s = sprintf ("py.%s", char (s));
     endfunction
 
     function vargout = help (x)
@@ -197,3 +200,10 @@
 %!assert (isa (pyobject (42.2), "pyobject"))
 %!assert (isa (pyobject (int32 (42)), "pyobject"))
 %!assert (isa (pyobject (pyobject ()), "pyobject"))
+
+%!assert (class (pyeval ("{}")), "py.dict")
+%!assert (class (pyeval ("[]")), "py.list")
+%!assert (class (pyeval ("()")), "py.tuple")
+%!assert (class (pyeval ("set()")), "py.set")
+%!assert (class (pyeval ("None")), "py.NoneType")
+%!assert (class (pyeval ("2.5")), "double")