On 8/20/07, rodrigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How would I go about retrieving a variable's name (not its value)? I > want to write a function that, given a list of variables, returns a > string with each variable's name and its value, like: > > a: 100 > b: 200
Let me preface my response by saying that this is a really weird thing to do, and almost certainly _not_ what you want to be doing. If I was to run across code like this, I'd be appalled ;-) Here's one way to do it, however: def make_dict(*args): d = {} for arg in args: for key, value in globals().iteritems(): if value is arg: d[key] = value break return d Note that this returns a dictionary, rather than a string, but this is trivial to modify. -- Evan Klitzke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list