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

The following doesn't work on standard dictionaries, but does work just fine with collections dictionaries and counters:

from collections import Counter

# instantiate Counter ditionary
test= Counter()

# create an empty name attribute field
test.name = lambda: None

# set the "name" attribute field to "name" = "test"
setattr(test.name, 'name', 'test')

# access the nested name field
print(test.name.name)

It's not the prettiest solution, but it is easy to implement and access.