David Bear wrote: > Let's say I have a list called, alist. If I pass alist to a function, > how can I get the name of it? > > alist = range(10) > > def afunction(list): > listName = list.__name__ (fails for a list object) >
You don't, see the other reply. You didn't say why you think you need this for, but I suspect that you can solve your case by using a dict in one way or another: { "somename": [1,2,3,4,5] } --Irmen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list