How to get the 'name' of an int

[Scott David Daniels]

Hans Brand wrote:
> "Rene Pijlman" <reageer.in at de.nieuwsgroep> wrote:
>>Hans Brand:
>>>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)
>>
>>causea = 1
>>causeb = 2
>>for cause in ("causea", "causeb"):
>>    print "%s = %d" % (cause, eval(cause))
> 
> I can work with this solution! Bedankt!

If you liked that, try:
causea = 1
causeb = 2
for name in "causea causeb".split():
     print "%s = %d" % (name, eval(name))

or even:
...
dictionary = globals()	# or locals() if that is where they are defined
for name in "causea causeb".split():
     print "%s = %d" % (name, dictionary[name])

-Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org