PyDict_GetItemString converse

[Michael Hudson]

Randy Heiland <heiland at ncsa.uiuc.edu> writes:

> I know that, given a name of a variable, I can do:
> 
> PyObject *result = PyDict_GetItemString(globals, varname);
> 
> how do I do the converse -- given a PyObject, get its associated
> variable name?

You can't in general.  If you're sure it's in the dictionary
"globals", I think the moral equivalent of

for (key,value) in globals.items():
    if value is result:
        return key

is your best bet.

Cheers,
M.

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