No doubt I've overlooked something obvious, but here goes:
Let's say I assign a value to a var, e.g.: myPlace = 'right here' myTime = 'right now'
Now let's say I want to print out the two vars, along with their names. I could easily do this: print "myPlace = %s, myTime = %s" % (myPlace, myTime)
But that requires that I know in advance the name of the vars. What if they are assigned dynamically. What I'm looking for is some method ( call it f() ) that allows me to do this: print "%s = %s, %s = %s" % (f(myPlace), myPlace, f(myTime), myTime)
Any ideas?
repr() doesn't do it for me, nor ``.
thanks Stewart in Calgary
Use a dictionary instead of free floating variables to store your data.
Stewarts_data = { 'myPlace' : 'right here',
'myTime' : 'right now' }
for item in Stewarts_data.items():
print '%s = %s' %item(There are likely even nicer ways -- for instance in Python 2.4 you can use sorted() on the dictionary -- but this gets the idea across, I hope.)
Best,
Brian vdB
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