Who am I: can a class instance determine its own name?
Tim CHURCHES
TCHUR at doh.health.nsw.gov.au
Thu Mar 8 01:48:24 EST 2001
This is probably an elementary question and the answer is probably writ large in multiple places in the Python documentation, but...
...can an instance of a class determine the name of the variable to which it is assigned? For example:
###########################
class Foo:
def whoami(self):
return "You are a Foo() but I do not know your name"
FooBar = Foo()
print FooBar.whoami()
###########################
How does one define the method whoami() so that it returns "FooBar"? This sort of navel gazing is formally called introspection, I think (therefore I am)?
Tim Churches
Sydney, Australia
(where, due to the Coriolis effect, the Python prompt does indeed look like this: <<< - or maybe its because we are upside-down)
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