On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:34:36 -0700, jojoba wrote: > i don't want to do anything sophisticated with this, i am really only > looking for a TITLE for my dictionary when i throw it in a tree editor > that i have built. And i do realize that its not possible now. I am just > pressing a point here.
Something like this might help. def get_object_title(object, namespace=None): """Returns a possible title/name for object, in the given namespace.""" if namespace is None: namespace = globals() try: return object.__name__ # works for functions, classes, modules except AttributeError: # search the namespace for key,value in namespace.items(): if object is value: # do NOT use == return key # not found in the namespace either # maybe an unnamed object? return "Object ID %d" % id(object) Hope this helps. -- Steven D'Aprano -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list