Get the instance name from a list by Reflection

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:10:34 +0200 (CEST), sccs cscs <zorg724 at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>Hello,
>I cannot find into documentation how to get the instance name. I found the attributes __dict__,__class__ ,__bases__ __name__ ,
>but if i have the code:
>
>class A :pass
>a1 = A ()
>a2 = A ()
>aList = [a1,a2]
>for elem in aList :
>    print elem.__instance_name__ ???
>
>I expect to have "a1" "a2" ...
>But it does not work ...
>help please
>Zorgi

    $ python
    Python 2.4.3 (#2, Oct  6 2006, 07:52:30)
    [GCC 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)] on linux2
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> class A: pass
    ...
    >>> a1 = A()
    >>> a2 = A()
    >>> aList = [a1, a2]
    >>> import __main__
    >>> from twisted.python.reflect import objgrep, isSame
    >>> for elem in aList:
    ...     objgrep(__main__, elem, isSame)
    ...
    ['.aList[0]', '.elem', '.a1']
    ['.aList[1]', '.elem', '.a2']
    >>>

Don't see how this could help,

Jean-Paul