self naming class?

[Serge Rey]

i'm trying to create a class that assigns a name attribute in such a way
that the name is set equal to the name of the instance. for example:

test = MyClass()

so that test.name == "test"

i want to get around having to pass the name as an argument to the
constructor:

test = MyClass("test")

i thought the following would work, but my logic is off since the
nameSelf method only works when called outside the __init__. i also
realize that eval and searching the global namespace are probably not
the brightest ways to attempt this, but i'm stuck.

any suggestions for how to accomplish this would be appreciated. 


class MyClass:
    """Self-naming class."""
    def __init__(self,values):
    	self.values = values
        self.id = id(self)
        self.nameSelf()

    def nameSelf(self):
        globalKeys = globals().keys()
        globalIds = [id(eval(x)) for x in globalKeys]
        self.globalIds = globalIds
        try:
            myNamesId = globalIds.index(self.id)
            self.name = globalKeys[myNamesId]
        except:
            self.name = None 
    
if __name__ == '__main__':
    data = range(100)
    test = MyClass(data)
    print test.name
    test.nameSelf()
    print test.name
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