Getting external name of passed variable

[David Hirschfield]

Cool, thanks.
Stack inspection of sorts it is.
-Dave

faulkner wrote:
>>>> import sys
>>>> tellme = lambda x: [k for k, v in sys._getframe(1).f_locals.iteritems() if v == x]
>>>> a=1
>>>> tellme(a)
>>>>         
> ['a']
>
> Michael Spencer wrote:
>   
>> David Hirschfield wrote:
>>     
>>> I'm not sure this is possible, but it sure would help me if I could do it.
>>>
>>> Can a function learn the name of the variable that the caller used to
>>> pass it a value? For example:
>>>
>>> def test(x):
>>>   print x
>>>
>>> val = 100
>>> test(val)
>>>
>>> Is it possible for function "test()" to find out that the variable it is
>>> passed, "x", was called "val" by the caller?
>>> Some kind of stack inspection?
>>>       
>> Perhaps, but don't try it ;-)
>>     
>>> Any help greatly appreciated,
>>> -David
>>>
>>>       
>> Can't you use keyword arguments?
>>
>>  >>> def test(**kw):
>> ...     print kw
>> ...
>>  >>> test(val=3)
>> {'val': 3}
>>  >>> test(val=3, otherval = 4)
>> {'otherval': 4, 'val': 3}
>>  >>>
>>
>> Michael
>>     
>
>   

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