Q: Name of a arbitary variable as a string?

[Erik Max Francis]

username wrote:

> I am searching for a function (call it: var_name) that do something
> like
> this:
> 
> >>> V="Hello World"
> >>> var_name(V)
> 'V'
> 
> I know how to get it from the locals() Dict. but this is not well
> defined if I have a second variabe
> 
> >>> T="Hello World"

Ah, but that just underscores the point that there can't be any such
function.  Objects are unique; names aren't.  You can have multiple
names bound to the same object, so there is no "right" name for an
object, there is just _a_ name for an object.  There could be others.

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