On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Alex Kleider <[email protected]> wrote: > Does python provide the introspective ability to retrieve the name to which > an object is bound? > > For example: > $ python3 > Python 3.4.0 (default, Apr 11 2014, 13:05:18) > [GCC 4.8.2] on linux > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>> >>>> a = 69 >>>> print("Identifier <{}> is bound to {}.".format(a.__name__, a)) > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute '__name__' > > An object can be bound to multiple names. Within a namespace you can use locals to see names, then compare various names like so: > >>> a = 3 >>> b = 6 >>> c = a >>> locals() {'a': 3, 'c': 3, 'b': 6, '__builtins__': <module '__builtin__' (built-in)>, '__package__': None, '__name__': '__main__', '__doc__': None} >>> a is b False >>> a is c True >>>
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