> On 22 Jan 2020, at 14:39, Alex Hall <alex.moj...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> You can achieve this now with my executing library:
> https://github.com/alexmojaki/executing
>
> ```
> import ast
> import inspect
>
> import executing
>
>
> def nameof(_):
> frame = inspect.currentframe().f_back
> call = executing.Source.executing(frame).node
> arg = call.args[0]
> if isinstance(arg, ast.Name):
> return arg.id
> elif isinstance(arg, ast.Attribute):
> return arg.attr
> else:
> raise SyntaxError
>
>
> foo = 3
> print(nameof(foo))
>
> print(f"{nameof(ast.Add)} = {ast.Add}")
> ```
>
> Other tricks of this nature can be found here:
> https://github.com/alexmojaki/sorcery
That's pretty cool!
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