Re: Function that knows its argument's variable name

2010-03-17 Thread Helge Stenström
Thank you to all who answered. Inspection is apparently possible, but too complex for me. Greg's solution does what I want, inserting is no problem. /Helge Not exactly, but you can come close with a little hackery. import sys def print_var(name):    print name, =,

Function that knows its argument's variable name

2010-03-14 Thread Helge Stenström
I want to write function that prints a value of a variable, for debugging. Like: with myVariable = parrot otherVariable = dead probe(myVariable) probe(otherVariable) instead of the longer print myVariable = , myVariable print otherVariable = , otherVariable Is that even possible? The