[Tutor] printing variable name and value?

[Borgulya Gabor]

Hi!

When I am testing my scripts, I often need the following line:

print 'x =',x

But as I like verbose variable names I hate to type them twice.
I wanted to write a small function that works like this:

>>> x=5
>>> print_variable('x')
x = 5
>>>

But I was unable to do it. If I pass the print_variable function the value
of x, like print_variable(x), I can not access the variable name. And if I
pass it the variable name, like above, I can not access the value of the
variable, because I am in a new name space.

Do I need such complicated methods as Traceback?

Gabor