How to obtain an instance's name at runtime?

[Frank Niessink]

Dinu C. Gherman <gherman at my-deja.com> wrote:

>>>> class C:
> ...    pass
> ...
>>>>
>>>> c = C()
>>>> C.__class__.__name__ # ok
> 'C'
>>>> c.__name__           # not ok
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "<interactive input>", line 0, in ?
> AttributeError: __name__
>>>>

> Question: How to obtain an instance's name at runtime?

That instance doesn't have a name. Take for example:

>>> a = b = c = C()

That creates one instance of C, with three references to it. 
Now what is the `real' name of the instance?

Cheers, Frank

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