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

[Harry George]

I'd like to know too.  I never actually use that kind of code, but it
would be handy.

"Emile van Sebille" <emile at fenx.com> writes:

> Has locals changed so that it may be written to reliably?  My documentation
> still warns:
> 
> locals ()
> Return a dictionary representing the current local symbol table. Warning:
> The contents of this dictionary should not be modified; changes may not
> affect the values of local variables used by the interpreter.
> 
> Emile van Sebille
> emile at fenx.com
> 
> 
> 
> "Harry George" <hgg9140 at cola.ca.boeing.com> wrote in message
> news:xqxzoeol3ju.fsf at cola.ca.boeing.com...
> > class MyName:
> >     #--------------------------
> >     def init(self,name):
> >         self.name=name
> >         try:
> >             raise None
> >         except:
> >             c=sys.exc_info()[2].tb_frame.f_back.f_back
> >         c.f_locals[name]=self
> > ...
> >
> > MyName("me")
> > print me.name
> >
> > "Kevin Cazabon" <kevin_cazabon at hotmail.nospamplease!.com> writes:
> >
> > > The reason I say it's not elegant is that there is the possibility (read
> > > "probability") that the assigned name and the actual name can differ.
> > >
> > > We're assuming that the programmer assigns exactly the same name to
> both,
> > > which doesn't seem like a hard task, but it introduces the possibility
> of
> > > problems, and probably hard ones to debug too.
> > >
> > > If there were an automatic method, it would be MUCH more reliable.
> > >
> > > Just MHO.
> > >
> > > Kevin.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "Paul Prescod" <paulp at ActiveState.com> wrote in message
> > > news:mailman.984324974.25480.python-list at python.org...
> > > | Kevin Cazabon wrote:
> > > | >
> > > | > ...
> > > | > You could also
> > > | > make it an initialization parameter.
> > > | >
> > > | > FooBar = Foo(name="FooBar")
> > > | >
> > > | > Just trying to help... not elegantly though.
> > > |
> > > | I disagree Kevin. This is not only the canonical way to give an
> instance
> > > | a name, it is also the elegant way. It gives you a lot more
> flexibility
> > > | because the name it has at runtime is unrelated to the variable name
> you
> > > | happened to have given it in your code. If you need to change one or
> the
> > > | other for any reason, you can do so safely.
> > > |
> > > |  Paul Prescod
> > > |
> > >
> > >
> >
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Harry George                E-mail:  harry.g.george at boeing.com
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