Get the name of a pandas DataFrame

Question

How do I get the name of a DataFrame and print it as a string?

Example:

boston (var name assigned to a csv file)

import pandas         


        

Answer 1

In many situations, a custom attribute attached to a pd.DataFrame object is not necessary. In addition, note that pandas-object attributes may not serialize. So pickling will lose this data.

Instead, consider creating a dictionary with appropriately named keys and access the dataframe via dfs['some_label'].

df = pd.DataFrame()

dfs = {'some_label': df}