On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Yingjie Lan <lany...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I wanted to do something like this: > > while True: > try: > def fun(a, b=b, c=c): pass > except NameError as ne: > name = get_the_var_name(ne) > locals()[name] = '' > else: break > > What's be best way to implement the function > get_the_var_name(ne) that returns the name > of the variable that could not be found?
A NameError Exception does not store the name of the variable. it has two attributes: .args and .message both of which contain (usually) a string such as: "name 'x' is not defined" cheers James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
