jojoba wrote: > given any dictionary, get a name for it.
You do not want to open your text editor and hardcode the name (neither as a variable name nor a name-attribute), do you? Your script is hopefully capable to determine the dict-to-be-displayed from user-input? Perhaps name of a file to be parsed? >>> anydict = getTheDamnDict(userinput) >>> displayTheDamnDict(anydict) Even when you can display the name of the variable the dictionary is assigned to you yield 'anydict'. That's not that compelling. When you really intend to hardcode the variable's name to something meaningful, how is your script supposed to do sensible work after your work is done with it? When you want to have a programm that can display arbitrary dictionaries you end up with a variable name that is (hopefully ;-) meaningful in the context of the programm but not meaningful in respect of the content of the dictionary: at programming-time you can't know what dictionaries are to be displayed so you don't have meaningful names. You might want to take the name of the file to be parsed or something else from userinput as the name of the dict - but the variables name is the wrong place to store this information. Did I miss anything? regards Michael -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
