On 12/28/2009 3:54 PM Joel Davis said...
I'm just curious if anyone knows of a way to get the variable name of
a reference passed to the function.
For curiosity, sure -- but it's real weak...
Put another way, in the example:
def MyFunc ( varPassed ):
print varPassed;
MyFunc(nwVar)
how would I get the string "nwVar" from inside of "MyFunc"?
Here are some ways of doing this:
http://www.python-forum.org/pythonforum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=12659
is it possible?
Yes -- but only for a limited set of situations. Consider the following:
MyFunc(3)
a=[1,2,3,4]
MyFunc(a[2])
b=a
MyFunc(b[2])
def newval(): return 3
MyFunc(newval())
MyFunc(range(3)[-1])
Emile
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