how do you get the name of a dictionary?

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Fri Aug 18 23:21:37 EDT 2006


BartlebyScrivener wrote:
> Tim Chase wrote:
> 
>>How would you ask for the object?
>>
>> >>> print get_name(banana)
>>
>>you might as well write
>>
>> >>> print "banana"
>>
> 
> Or there used to be a guy in this group who said it was like asking a
> cat for its name. He headbanged himself unconscious though, or so they
> say.
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/hql6d 
> 
> rd
> 
We need to take this discussion to a meta-level. Once we find out what 
the dictionary's name is, we will then need the name's name.

with-apologies-to-lewis-carroll-and-in-contravention-of-the-don't-post-while-intoxicated-rule-ly 
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