diff --git a/sympy/printing/pretty/pretty_symbology.py b/sympy/printing/pretty/pretty_symbology.py
--- a/sympy/printing/pretty/pretty_symbology.py
+++ b/sympy/printing/pretty/pretty_symbology.py
@@ -311,7 +311,10 @@ def xobj(symb, length):
     if bot is None:  bot = ext
     if mid is not None:
         if (length % 2) == 0:
-            raise ValueError('xobj: expect length = 2*k+1')
+            # even height, but we have to print it somehow anyway...
+            # XXX is it ok?
+            length += 1
+
     else:
         mid = ext
 
diff --git a/sympy/printing/printer.py b/sympy/printing/printer.py
--- a/sympy/printing/printer.py
+++ b/sympy/printing/printer.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ class Printer(object):
 
        Also, if BAR is a subclass of FOO, _print_FOO(bar) will be called for
        instance of BAR, if no _print_BAR is provided.  Thus, usually, we don't
-       need to provide prining routines for every class we want to support --
+       need to provide printing routines for every class we want to support --
        only generic routine has to be provided for a set of classes. 
 
        A good example for this are functions - for example PrettyPrinter only
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ class Printer(object):
            It's job is to loop through expr classes (class + it's bases), and
            try to dispatch the work to _print_<EXPR_CLASS>
 
-           e.g., suppose we have the following class hierarcy::
+           e.g., suppose we have the following class hierarchy::
 
                  Basic
                    |
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ class Printer(object):
         # See if the class of expr is known, or if one of its super
         # classes is known, and use that print function
         res = None
-        for cls in expr.__class__.__mro__:
+        for cls in type(expr).__mro__:
             if hasattr(self, '_print_'+cls.__name__):
                 res = getattr(self, '_print_'+cls.__name__)(expr, *args)
                 break
diff --git a/sympy/printing/tests/test_pretty.py b/sympy/printing/tests/test_pretty.py
--- a/sympy/printing/tests/test_pretty.py
+++ b/sympy/printing/tests/test_pretty.py
@@ -215,3 +215,12 @@ def test_pretty_limits():
 def test_pretty_limits():
     assert pretty( limit(x, x, oo, evaluate=False) ) == ' lim x\nx->oo '
     assert pretty( limit(x**2, x, 0, evaluate=False) ) == '     2\nlim x \nx->0  '  
+
+def test_pretty_class():
+    """test that printer dispatcher correctly handles classes"""
+    class C: pass   # C has no .__class__ and this was causing problems
+    class D(object): pass
+
+    assert pretty( C ) == "test_pretty.C"
+    assert pretty( D ) == "<class 'test_pretty.D'>"
+
diff --git a/sympy/printing/tests/test_pretty_unicode.py b/sympy/printing/tests/test_pretty_unicode.py
--- a/sympy/printing/tests/test_pretty_unicode.py
+++ b/sympy/printing/tests/test_pretty_unicode.py
@@ -198,3 +198,30 @@ u"""\
     assert u == s
 
 
+def test_upretty_seq_even():
+    """there used to be a bug when pprinting sequences with even height"""
+    u = upretty([x**2])
+    s = \
+u"""\
+⎡ 2⎤
+⎣x ⎦\
+"""
+    assert u == s
+
+    u = upretty((x**2,))
+    s = \
+u"""\
+⎛ 2⎞
+⎝x ⎠\
+"""
+    assert u == s
+
+    u = upretty({x**2: 1})
+    s = \
+u"""\
+⎧ 2   ⎫
+⎨x : 1⎬
+⎩     ⎭\
+"""
+    assert u == s
+