How do you print the variable name when the variable points to an object in Python

You can just store a name in each Turtle (after creating it) and refer to the name attribute to print it:

june.name = 'june' july.name = 'july' ... print("and the winning is ", turn.name) 

You can do this in many ways, and one of them is this :

my_var = "sss" my_var_name = [ k for k,v in locals().items() if v == my_var][0] print("Variable name is : ", my_var_name) 

Here we create a virable "my_var", when we declare a virable he is saved in local virables and u can access them by using "locals().items()" which return all of them. And by the for you iterate on them and when u find the v == to the virable u get it in "my_var_name".

You can't get the variable name itself, at least not easily. See the explanation here: Getting the name of a variable as a string -- kindall's answer

Instead you can compare the object identity and print its name manually:

print("and the winning is", 'july' if turn is july else 'june') 

Though for what it's worth, the most generic solution is to use a dict. See How do I create a variable number of variables? For example, starting with something like this:

turtles = {month: turtle.Turtle() for month in ['june', 'july']} 

You just need to wrap june and july with the value wrapper from python-varname:

from varname import Wrapper def main(): wn = turtle.Screen() #Creates a screen #Define your turtles here june = Wrapper(turtle.Turtle()) # <- then, use june.value to access turtle july = Wrapper(turtle.Turtle()) # <- and june/july.name to access the name june.value.shape('turtle') july.value.shape('turtle') june.value.color('blue') july.value.color('red') july.value.goto(0, 50) #move second turtle to a different starting location turtleTurn() turn = turtleTurn() if turn == 0: turn = june else: turn = july while isInScreen(wn, turn.value) and sameSpot(june.value, july.value): if turn.value == june.value: turn = july else: turn = june turtleMove(turn.value) if isInScreen(wn, turn.value) == False: print("and the winning is ", turn.name) wn.exitonclick() main() 

The package is hosted at https://github.com/pwwang/python-varname.

I am the author of the package. Let me know if you have any questions using it.