[Tutor] What's in a name?

[Mark Lawrence]

On 03/01/2014 05:22, Keith Winston wrote:
> I've got the beginner's version of a question I think Denis asked
> recently...
>
> If I'm iterating a variable through a series of list names, for future
> processing, I would like to print the name of the list the variable is
> set to in a given moment... i.e.
>
> for i in [alist, blist, clist]
>      i[3] = "okey dokey "
>      print(i[3], i.name <http://i.name>)  # this is definitely not the
> way to do it...
>
> output:
> okey dokey alist
> okey dokey blist
> okey dokey clist
>
> Is there any way to do that? I'm thinking there may not be, since the
> variable is actually bound to the content of the list, not the other
> name... which would be good, in the sense that I'm beginning to
> understand, but bad in the sense that I need to rethink a piece (or two)
> of code.
> --
> Keith
>

I don't understand what you're asking for.  It doesn't help that the 
code you've posted isn't even valid.  If you add the missing colon at 
the end of the for loop, you've still got a problem in that standard 
lists don't have a name attribute.

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Mark Lawrence