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I have a python list which contains 4 elements, each of which is a time-series dataset. e.g., 

full_set = [Apple_px, Banana_px, Celery_px]

I am charting them via matplotlib and I want to save the charts individually using the variable names. 

for n in full_set:

*perform analysis

    plt.savefig("Chart_{}.png".format(n))

The ideal output would have Chart_Apple_px, Chart_Banana_px, Chart_Celery_px as the chart names.

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Possible duplicate of How can I get the name of an object in Python? – Laur Ivan 8 hours ago
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what's wrong with Apple_px.__name__? – Laur Ivan 8 hours ago
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In Python names and values are two very different things, stored and dealt with in different ways - and more practically one value can have multiple names assigned to it.

So, instead of trying to get the name of some data value, use a tuple where you assign a title to the dataset in your list of datasets, something like this:

full_set = [('Chart_Apple_px', Apple_px), ('Chart_Banana_px', Banana_px)]

for chart_name, dataset in full_set:
   # do your calculations on the dataset
   plt.savefig("{}.png".format(chart_name))
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