title: Get the return of 'type' as human readable string
body: <p>How do I get the variable part of <code>type</code> as a string?</p>
  
  <p>ie:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; type('abc')
  &lt;type 'str'&gt;
  &gt;&gt;&gt; type(1)
  &lt;type 'int'&gt;
  &gt;&gt;&gt; type(_)
  &lt;type 'type'&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In each case here, I want what is inside single quotes: str, int, type as a string.</p>
  
  <p>I tried using a regex against <code>repr(type(1))</code> and that works, but that does not seem robust or Pythonic. Is there a better way?</p>