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Python

Yosef Fastow
Yosef Fastow
18,526 Points
Posted by Yosef Fastow
Yosef Fastow
18,526 Points

How do you print the name of a variable or list without printing the value?

How do you print the name of a variable or list without printing the value? For example if: name = "Hello World!" how do I get "name" printed instead of "Hello world!" ?

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,457 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,457 Points

As you create variables, their names get added to the global namespace. You can see the global namespace using dir()

Python 3.3.0 (default, Nov 26 2015, 16:04:52) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.1.0 (clang-602.0.53)] on unknown
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> dir()
['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__']
>>> name = "Hello World!"
>>> name
'Hello World!'
>>> dir()
['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', 'name']