Is it possible to get the original variable name of a variable passed to a function? E.g.

foobar = "foo"

def func(var):
    print var.origname

So that:

func(foobar)

Returns:

>>foobar

EDIT:

All I was trying to do was make a function like:

def log(soup):
    f = open(varname+'.html', 'w')
    print >>f, soup.prettify()
    f.close()

.. and have the function generate the filename from the name of the variable passed to it.

I suppose if it's not possible I'll just have to pass the variable and the variable's name as a string each time.