Getting current variable name

Lonnie Princehouse finite.automaton at gmail.com
Thu Mar 17 13:14:21 EST 2005


> There should be an easier way that doesn't require stepping though
the name list.

Trying to find names bound to a particular object is a /very/ strange
thing to want to do in Python.  If this is for anything more than
debugging diagnostics, it's probably better to use a dictionary
explicitly for your variables and not muck around with global or local
namespace.




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