Little Q: how to print a variable's name, not its value?

Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou tzot at sil-tec.gr
Tue Mar 29 06:12:55 EST 2005


On 28 Mar 2005 22:06:44 -0800, rumours say that
"stewart.midwinter at gmail.com" <stewart.midwinter at gmail.com> might have
written:

<snip complete article-- subject is enough>

Read about locals() and globals() in the Python documentation.  These
provide the information you request (ie what names are bound to what
objects).
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