Name of variable passed as argument

Question

I want to do something along the lines of

static PyObject* printArgs(PyObject* self, PyObject* args) {
    PyObject * oarg1 = NULL;
    PyArg_ParseTuple(args,"O",&oarg1);
    return -- magic --
}

Such that calling modulename.printArgs(a) returns 'a'.

Is this possible? The best I could think of is looking through locals() for a variable that points to whatever I got in args, but if there's more than one name for the value I could get the wrong name.

Answer 1

Not really possible. In no way is it guaranteed that the parameter even has a name, it could be an anonymous expression. As such, this is not a limitation of the API, it is a fundamental issue with what you are trying to achieve. Can you give some motivation for the printArgs function?