how do you get the name of a dictionary?

[Fredrik Lundh]

jojoba wrote:

> im quite surprised at the arrogance laid out by some of the above
> posters:
> 
> However, does it not seem reasonable to ask python:
> 
> Given a dicitionary, Banana = {}
> return one or more strings,
> where each string is the name(s) of the reference(s) to Banana.
> 
> why is this not sane?!?!
> what am i missing here?

Python's object model.  an object has a value, a type, and an identity, 
but no name.

required reading:

     http://tinyurl.com/gxrdr (relevant faq entry)
     http://effbot.org/zone/python-objects.htm
     http://www.python.net/crew/mwh/hacks/objectthink.html

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