Use list name as string

[Tim Chase]

> I know nothing but that sucks. I can think of a lot of times I would like to
> do something similar. There really is no way to do this, it seems like there
> would be some simple way kind of like str(listname) but backwards or
> different.

Python does the only reasonable thing:  doesn't give you access 
to the "name".  Consider the following situation:

   a = [1,2,3,4,5]
   b = a

   savedata(b)

Do you want "a" or "b" as the variable-name?  Both are valid 
names for the same list.

If it matters, you can do something like this hack:

   def savedata(**kwargs):
     assert len(kwargs) == 1, "Just pass one parameter"
     filename, data = kwargs.iteritems().next()
     ext1 = '\.csv'
     flex = filename + ext1
     datawrite = csv.writer(open(flex, "wb"))
     datawrite.writerows(data)

which can then be called with something like

   savedata(foo=[1,2,3,4,5])
   savedata(bar=a)
   savedata(name=name)

to create "foo.csv" containing that data.

Or you could just pass it explicitly which would make more sense 
and be easier to understand.

-tkc