how do you get the name of a dictionary?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:34:36 -0700, jojoba wrote:

> i don't want to do anything sophisticated with this, i am really only
> looking for a TITLE for my dictionary when i throw it in a tree editor
> that i have built. And i do realize that its not possible now. I am just
> pressing a point here.

Something like this might help.

def get_object_title(object, namespace=None):
    """Returns a possible title/name for object, in the given namespace."""
    if namespace is None:
        namespace = globals()
    try:
        return object.__name__ # works for functions, classes, modules
    except AttributeError:
        # search the namespace
        for key,value in namespace.items():
            if object is value: # do NOT use ==
                return key
        # not found in the namespace either
        # maybe an unnamed object?
        return "Object ID %d" % id(object)
        
Hope this helps.


-- 
Steven D'Aprano