Who am I: can a class instance determine its own name?

[Remco Gerlich]

Tim CHURCHES <TCHUR at doh.health.nsw.gov.au> wrote in comp.lang.python:
> This is probably an elementary question and the answer is probably writ large in multiple places in the Python documentation, but...
> 
> ...can an instance of a class determine the name of the variable to which it is assigned? For example:
> 
> ###########################
> class Foo:
>     def whoami(self):
>          return "You are a Foo() but I do not know your name"
> 
> FooBar = Foo()
> 
> print FooBar.whoami()
> ###########################
> 
> 
> How does one define the method whoami() so that it returns "FooBar"? This
> sort of navel gazing is formally called introspection, I think (therefore I
> am)?

An instance may have no name, one name, or many names.

print Foo().whoami()  # No name

FooBar = [Foo()]*3 # Name? FooBar[0], FooBar[1] and FooBar[2]...

a = b = c = Foo() # a, b and c

So it's not possible. What do you need it for?

-- 
Remco Gerlich