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I can't speak to the Python SDK in particular, but in the one case, it sounds like Outputs are accepted as Inputs, but the other the Output needs to be applied.

• <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-aws/blob/master/sdk/python/pulumi_aws/cloudwatch/metric_alarm.py#L800>
• <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-aws/blob/master/sdk/python/pulumi_aws/cloudwatch/metric_alarm.py#L807>

The resource name is internal to Pulumi and must always be a plain string.

Is there a way to construct `resource_name` from an existing `Resource` object? Seeing that `resource_name` is a `required` property for creating new resources, how do you suggest we set this value dynamically?