On 17Nov2013 13:47, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> On 2013-11-17 11:34, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> > Functions have a __name__ attribute, which is the name they were
> > defined as:
> >
> > >>> def foo(): pass
> > ...
> > >>> foo.__name__
> > 'foo'
> > >>> bar = foo
> > >>> bar.__name__
> > 'foo'
>
> which they have even in less-than-useful situations:
>
> (lambda s: s.lower()).__name__
>
> accurately returns that its name is "<lambda>". So you get what you
> pay for ;-)
Also, it is documented that you may assign to __name__.
I've started doing that in a few cases where I have a table of lambdas mapped
by operation names; I've started labelling the lambdas to get better debugging.
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