How to get a variable name as a string in Python?
- by e-satis
I would like to be able to get the name of a variable as a string but I don't know if Python has that much introspection capabilities. Something like:
>>> print(my_var.__name__)
'my_var'
I want to do that because I have a bunch of vars I'd like to turn into a dictionary like :
bar=True
foo=False
>>> my_dict=dict(bar=bar, foo=foo)
>>> print mydict
>>> print my_dict
{'foo': False, 'bar': True}
But I'd like something more automatic than that.
Python have locals() and vars(), so I guess there is a way.
