How do I get the shader node type in python?

Question

If I do:

print(some_node.type)

I get things such as MIX_SHADER

but if I do:

print(some_node)

I get

<bpy_struct, ShaderNodeMixShader("Mix Shader.001") at 0x7fdb7da7f808>

Barring the use of regexes, is there a way to get the type of the bpy_struct - in other words ShaderNodeMixShader?

so I can use it for templating code later?

Answer 1

>>> node.bl_idname
'ShaderNodeMixShader'

Alternatively, you can use the same way you get the name of anything's type in Python

>>> type(node)
<class 'bpy.types.ShaderNodeMixShader'>

>>> type(node).__name__
'ShaderNodeMixShader'