Get name of dictionary

Question

I find myself needing to iterate over a list made of dictionaries and I need, for every iteration, the name of which dictionary I\'m iterating on.

Here\'s an MWE (the co

Answer 1

If you want to read name and value

dictionary={"name1":"value1","name2":"value2","name3":"value3","name4":"value4"}
for name,value in dictionary.items():
    print(name)
    print(value)

If you want to read name only

dictionary={"name1":"value1","name2":"value2","name3":"value3","name4":"value4"}
for name in dictionary:
    print(name)

If you want to read value only

dictionary={"name1":"value1","name2":"value2","name3":"value3","name4":"value4"}
for values in dictionary.values():
    print(values)

Here is your answer

dic1 = {"dic":1}
dic2 = {"dic":2}
dic3 = {"dic":3}
dictionaries = [dic1,dic2,dic3]
for i in range(len(dictionaries)):
  my_var_name = [ k for k,v in locals().items() if v == dictionaries[i]][0]
  print(my_var_name)