How to get the variable name when itering

Question

Hi, can anyone help me with this :

a="text"
b=2
c=1.1
d=(1,2,3)
e=[1,2,3]
f={1,2,3,4}
g={1:4,3:7,4:0,8:a}

for i in [a,b,c,d,e,f,g]:
print(i,"-->",type(i))

i actually want to print the variable name, not the value
so, instead of:
text —> <class ‘string ‘>
I want to get :
a —> <class ‘string ‘>

Answer 1

Danny Mientjes, i can share with you a code that i did some weeks ago to demonstrate handling with dicts. I only filled the dict with your values. I am not sure if this is what you wanted:

dic = {'a': 'text', 'b': 2, 'c': 1.1, 'd': (1,2,3), 'e': [1,2,3], 'f': {1,2,3,4}, 'g': {1:4,3:7,4:0,8:'a'}}
for key, val in dic.items():
print(key, val)
print()
for key, val in dic.items():
print(f'{key} --> {type(val)}')

Answer 2

i saw a work around for this in C long time ago, but it not something i need or want to use because it was just like making something tricky, if you need something like that the language have given you dictionary to tangle with

Answer 3

Lothar, thanks, I appreciate it.
I like the code you wrote.
But I thought there was an easy way to get the iterations numbers, not the value.

Answer 4

AsterisK, thanks, I will try to solve it with a dictionary.