Getting current variable name

[Steven Bethard]

pl wrote:
> I followed the mails entitled 'How to turn a variable name into a
> string?' in march 2005 posts as I have a similar problem.
> 
> I have to get some list variable names at some point in my program. So
> I ended up looking into globals() to get them with a small function like
> this:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/python
> 
> l1 = ['r', 'r', 't']
> l2 = ['r', 't', 't']
> l3 = ['t', 't', 't']	# Two equivalent lists but...
> l4 = ['t', 't', 't']	# with different names
> 
> def nameofObj(obj):
> #	print locals()
> 	globdict = globals()
> 	var = globals().keys()
> 	for i in var :
> 		if globdict[i] == obj:
> 			print i
> 
> 
> print '-'*20 ,'\n'
> nameofObj(l1)
> 
> print '-'*20 ,'\n'
> map(nameofObj, [l1, l2, l3, l4])

What is the problem you're trying to solve here?  Looking up the names 
of an object is not usually something you want to do.  If you provide a 
little more detail on your use case, we might be able to help you 
refactor this code.

STeVe