How to get the 'name' of an int

[Charl P. Botha]

> "Hans Brand" <Hans.Brand at BrandInnovators.com> wrote in message
> news:b3najo$hej$1 at reader08.wxs.nl...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to get the 'name' of a variable to do something like this:
>>
>> causea = 12
>> causeb = 13
>> for cause in (causea, causeb):
>>     print "%s = %s" %(name(cause), cause)

To find the name of the variable, you could also try something like: 

[i[0] for i in locals().items() if i[1] is causea][0] 

which will yield the string 'causea' if you've bound causea as above.

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