Jonathan Fine writes:
> We can also use locals() to 'inverse search' to get the name, much
> as in the original post.
As has already been explained, locals() (and any namespace for that
matter) is a many-one mapping, and therefore the inverse is not
well-defined.
At least for the 'print(f"count is {count}")' example, you really need
the compiler's help to get it right, unless you are willing to do it
the other way around:
def debug_name(name: str) -> None:
print(f"{name} is {eval(name)}")
but in general that's fraught with all the problems of using eval().
Steve
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