I know nothing but that sucks. I can think of a lot of times I would like to
do something similar. There really is no way to do this, it seems like there
would be some simple way kind of like str(listname) but backwards or
different.
Python does the only reasonable thing: doesn't give you access
to the "name". Consider the following situation:
a = [1,2,3,4,5]
b = a
savedata(b)
Do you want "a" or "b" as the variable-name? Both are valid
names for the same list.
If it matters, you can do something like this hack:
def savedata(**kwargs):
assert len(kwargs) == 1, "Just pass one parameter"
filename, data = kwargs.iteritems().next()
ext1 = '\.csv'
flex = filename + ext1
datawrite = csv.writer(open(flex, "wb"))
datawrite.writerows(data)
which can then be called with something like
savedata(foo=[1,2,3,4,5])
savedata(bar=a)
savedata(name=name)
to create "foo.csv" containing that data.
Or you could just pass it explicitly which would make more sense
and be easier to understand.
-tkc
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