What is the purpose of __class__?

[Jason Bunting]

I see this convention being used but don’t understand why it exists:

 

__class__

 

Is it simply a Pythonic type of convention that isn’t being used currently? What is the point of it and how can it be beneficially used?

 

Thanks,
Jason Bunting

 

[Bob Ippolito]

It's only used for introspection. Some of the repr's use it, the ones
that don't probably should. It's not otherwise very interesting.

-bob