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Question #187286 on Sikuli changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/sikuli/+question/187286

RaiMan posted a new comment:
There is no feature in Python, to get the name of a variable as a string.
But in your case you might use this hack, that uses the id of an object to find it in globals().

# returns the tuple's name, if it is one, otherwise empty string
def getNameOfTuple(p):
    for k,v in globals().items():
        if not isinstance(v, tuple): continue
        if not id(p) == eval("id(%s)"%k): continue
        return k
    return ""

-- usage
variable = "not a tuple"
someTuple = (1,2,3)

print "name=", getNameOfTuple(someTuple)
#prints: name= someTuple

print "name=", getNameOfTuple(variable)
#prints: name=

BTW: if there is a better way to get name of tuple without parse all existing one knowing I have hundreds. of them
Forget about this, just do it ;-) Python interpreter does this ten or even hundred times more often than you ;-)

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