How to get the 'name' of an int

Hilbert hilbert at microsoft.com
Fri Feb 28 10:56:49 EST 2003


Hans,

I would solve this problem with using
a dictionary

>>> my_ints={}
>>> my_ints['causea']=12
>>> my_ints['causeb']=13
>>> for i in my_ints:
...    print "%s = %d" % (i,my_ints[i])

causea = 12
causeb = 13

Hope this helps.

Hilbert
"I'm new to python so be easy on me!"

"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)
>
> The result should be:
> causea = 12
> causeb = 13
>
> How can I achieve this?
>
> Thanks, Hans
>
>






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