Is it possible for an object, in its __init__ method, to find out if it is being assigned to a variable, and if so, what that variable's name is? I can think of some potentially ugly ways of finding out using sys._getframe, but if possible I'd prefer something less exotic. (Basically I have a class whose instances, upon being created, need a 'name' property, and if it's being assigned to a variable immediately, that variable's name would be the best value of 'name'; to make the code cleaner and less redundant, it would be best if it knew its own name upon creation, just like functions and classes do, without the code having to pass it its own name as a string.)
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