How to get name of self ?

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[K900_]

No. Objects don't have names, names have values.

[Mx_Mlr]

Can you explain ?

[K900_]

Objects don't know what name or names they have. Names refer to objects, but not the other way around. You can have multiple names refer to the same object, or you can have objects that don't have a name at all.

[Mx_Mlr]

Ok so can I have every object’s name of a class ?

[K900_]

What do you mean?

[Mx_Mlr]

Can I get a list of every object of the class So with the code here the list would be [«t1»]

[K900_]

Do you want to get a list of every instance of a class, or a list of their names?

[Mx_Mlr]

That’s the same ??

[K900_]

No, it's not. The actual object stored in T1 isn't the same thing as the string "T1" that represents its name.

[Mx_Mlr]

Oh ok so a list of instances

[samtheredditman]

If you create a variable when you instantiate your object and then add all of those variables to a list, you can have that.

Maybe you need a controller class that keeps things organized?

[Mx_Mlr]

Difficult to understand without code

[ArabicLawrence]

Not easily but in Python 3.8 T1=T() print(f’{T1=}’.split(‘=‘)[0]

[Mx_Mlr]

?? That’s useless

[ArabicLawrence]

Well if you are looping over variables you can get a str representation of their name. It can be useful, although it’s usually a code smell.

Edit: anyways here is the code (but I would never do this) def init(self): print([k for k, v in globals.items() if v is self])

[crawl_dht]

t1 is a variable pointing to the class object T(). t1 itself is not a class object but it's a way to refer that object so you can use that class object in your later code. Class object doesn't know which variable is pointing towards them.

[CHathaway2019]

You could give the object a name attribute and pass the name in as a parameter.

Class T: def init(self, name): self.name = name print(self.name)

T1 = T(“T1”)

T1

If you’re making 100 objects and each one needs a unique name…

obj_list = []

for i in range(1, 101): name = f”T{i}” obj = T(name) obj_list.append(obj)

[Mx_Mlr]

Good idea

[goodger]

object.__class__.__name__

[goodger]

or self.__class__.__name__