Q: Name of a arbitary variable as a string?

[Martin v. Loewis]

username <username at ilt.fhg.de> writes:

> I am searching for a function (call it: var_name) that do something like
> this: 
> 
> >>> V="Hello World"
> >>> var_name(V)
> 'V'

Such a function cannot exist. The argument passed to that var_name
function is the object bound to V, i.e. the string object "Hello
World", *not* the variable itself. So you are asking for the name of
an object, not for the name of the variable. Objects, in general,
don't have names in Python.

Regards,
Martin