On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 12:43 -0700, Stephen Boulet wrote: > Does an arbitrary variable carry an attribute describing the text in > its name? I'm looking for something along the lines of: > > x = 10 > print x.name > >>> 'x' > > Perhaps the x.__getattribute__ method? Thanks.
Variables are not objects and so they have no attributes. You can't really de-reference the object being referenced as it can potentially contain multiple references, but an innacurate way of doing this would be, e.g. >>> x = [1, 2, 3] >>> y = x >>> g = globals() >>> varnames = [i for i in g if g[i] is x] ['x', 'y'] But this cries the question: why do you want to do this? And usually that question is asked when someone thinks that a: you shouldn't need to do this and b: whatever the desired effect there is probably a better way of accomplishing it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
