[pypy-dev] Fwd: Access the name of variable that is being assigned

[William ML Leslie]

Ack, resend because pypy-dev does not set reply-to ...

On 16 July 2014 03:55, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Yichao Yu <yyc1992 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 5:05 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I guess it would be better if you can describe what you really want to do.
>
> I described. Or you need use case or user story? I think I want to link
> object instances to variable names without to print those names
> (if possible) in __repr__ and debug messages to save time on
> troubleshooting.

The most common practice is to pass some kind of debugging info to the
constructor, otherwise, setting debug info on the instance is ok, too.

my_object = SomeClass()
my_object.debug_info = 'This is the typical case'

You can also use the inspect module to grab the source line of the caller:

http://codepad.org/YvStcEMv

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William Leslie

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