Getting the name of a variable which was used as a function parameter.

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Mon Jul 21 17:38:06 EDT 2008


Ravi Kotecha wrote:

> Of course I wouldn't, it is a total hack, mostly useless but fun.  I
> tried to do it after someone in #python efnet said it was impossible!

your function only finds *some* name (if it finds a name at all), not 
*the* name, so you haven't really proven that someone wrong yet.

you can get a lot closer by using more radical approaches, but I don't 
think it's possible to do this in a fully robust way, at least not from 
the Python level.

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