Re: Function that knows its argument's variable name

[Gregory Ewing]

Helge Stenström wrote:

I want to write  function that prints a value of a variable, for
debugging. Like:

myVariable = "parrot"
otherVariable = "dead"

>

probe(myVariable)
probe(otherVariable)

Not exactly, but you can come close with a little hackery.

import sys

def print_var(name):
  print name, "=", sys._getframe(1).f_locals[name]

def f():
  fred = 42
  mary = "christmas"
  print_var("fred")
  print_var("mary")

f()

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Greg
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