On May 3, 5:21 pm, Emile van Sebille <em...@fenx.com> wrote: > On 5/3/2009 3:39 PM bearophileh...@lycos.com said... > > > > > Sometimes I rename recursive functions, or I duplicate&modify them, > > and they stop working because inside them there's one or more copy of > > their old name. > > This happens to me more than one time every year. > > So I have written this: > > > from inspect import getframeinfo, currentframe > > > def SOMEVERYUGLYNAME(n): > > if n <= 1: > > return 1 > > else: > > self_name = getframeinfo(currentframe()).function > > #self_name = getframeinfo(currentframe())[2] # older python > > > # only if it's a global function > > #return n * globals()[self_name](n - 1) > > return n * eval(self_name + "(%d)" % (n - 1)) > > assert SOMEVERYUGLYNAME(6) == 2*3*4*5*6 > > > Are there nicer ways to do that? > > I've sometimes used classes like: > > class SOMEVERYUGLYNAME: > def __call__(self,n): > if n<=1: > return 1 > else: > return n*self.__class__()(n-1) > > assert SOMEVERYUGLYNAME()(6) == 2*3*4*5*6 > > It's probably nicer (for some definition of nice), but I wouldn't say > it's nice. >
Some of that could probably abstracted into a decorator maybe? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
