On Sep 17, 2007, at 7:21 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: > > "Eric Abrahamsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > >> When instantiating a class, is it possible for that instance to >> 'know' (via the __init__ method, I suppose) the name of the variable >> it's been assigned to? > > > Presumably you have a reason for asking this? > If you tell us what you are trying to do we might be able to > come up with a more conventional solution.
To be honest, I was mostly curious, as I couldn't think of a good way to do it. I was thinking of cleaner ways of giving an instance a 'name' attribute than instance_name = Class('instance_name') in which the instance_name is repeated, and could be mistyped. I know there are problems with multiple bindings, which is why I was thinking of doing it with the __init__ method, in which case you'd get the first variable name and then none other (even if it was later unbound from the original variable). In the end, though, I was mostly curious by which mechanism you could get the variable name 'inside' the class workings. How do you pass it in as a string? Thanks!, Eric _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor