The fully qualified name of an object in Python is the full dotted "path" to its definition.
fullqualname provides fully qualified names for a variety of types in Python 2 and 3.
$ pip install fullqualname
In [1]: from fullqualname import fullqualname In [2]: import datetime In [3]: obj = datetime.timedelta.days In [4]: fullqualname(obj) Out[4]: 'datetime.timedelta.days'