On Wednesday, 26 December 2012 08:41:28 UTC+5:30, Roy Smith wrote: > 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.
I need it compile-time. During run-time, I can always use: function_name.__name__ (although that's kind of lame because it returns "function_name"). But if the function itself contains print(__name__) and I call the function, it returns __main__ (yes, __main__ itself, not the string "__main__") (which is the calling function). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
