How to get an object's name as a string?

[Larry Bates]

Shannon Mayne wrote:
> I would like to create objects with algorithmically determined names
> based on other object names and use object names for general algorithm
> input.
> 
> How would one extract the name of an object from an object instance as
> a string. I would think that it is stored as an attribute of the
> object but successive 'dir()' calles haven't found me the attribute
> with the namestring.
> 
> My thanks!
> 

Once again (there have been many posts on this subject).  Objects can have more 
than one name in Python.  Therefore there is not a one-to-one correspondence 
between an object instance and name(s) that point to it.

Example:

a = myObject()
b = a
c = a

now a, b, c all point to the same object.  How would you define it's "name".

You are certainly free to store a name as an attribute to the object, but the 
linkage would then be purely logical.

Example:

objects = []
objects.append(myObject('a'))
#
# Find object with name == 'a'
#
obj = None
for object in objects:
     if object.name == 'a':
        obj = object


-Larry