On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Abhas Bhattacharya <abhasbhattachar...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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).
That's because __name__ looks for that attribute on the module (aka "global variable"), not the function. When you run your Python script as an application, the module is called __main__. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
