In article <c9548d77-ccc3-4b47-b84b-9a9f0c285...@googlegroups.com>, Abhas Bhattacharya <abhasbhattachar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> While I am defining a function, how can I access the name (separately as > string as well as object) of the function without explicitly naming > it(hard-coding the name)? > For eg. I am writing like: > def abc(): > #how do i access the function abc here without hard-coding the name? Do you need it at compile-time, or is it good enough to have the name a run-time? Assuming the latter, then I'm thinking the traceback module is your friend. Call traceback.extract_stack() and pull off the last frame in the stack. The function name will be in there. There may be a cleaner way, but that's what I've done in the past. I've only ever wanted the name. If you need the actual function object, I suppose you might eval() the name, or something like that. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
