Can you obtain names from parent scope?

[Michael Hudson]

wsadkin at nameconnector.com (Will Sadkin) writes:

> However I can't make this work, because objects don't have any
> intrinsic name, and if I write a function of the form
> >>> def dbgval(*args):
>     ...
> 
> then dbgval() only knows the arguments objects as belonging to the
> list 'args', and I can't find any way to determine what the names
> were in the parent's local scope when the function was called.

How did you know they had any?

dbgval({})

> Is there any way for a function to retrieve this information?

Well, you can hack around in the bytecode.  I've posted code to do it
to c.l.py before -- hit google if you like.

Cheers,
M.

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