You can achieve this now with my executing library: https://github.com/alexmojaki/executing ``` import ast import inspect import executing def nameof(_): frame = inspect.currentframe().f_back call = executing.Source.executing(frame).node arg = call.args[0] if isinstance(arg, ast.Name): return arg.id elif isinstance(arg, ast.Attribute): return arg.attr else: raise SyntaxError foo = 3 print(nameof(foo)) print(f"{nameof(ast.Add)} = {ast.Add}") ``` Other tricks of this nature can be found here: https://github.com/alexmojaki/sorcery