On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:59:41 -0800, Muhammad Alkarouri wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> What is the simplest way to access the attributes of a function from
> inside it, other than using its explicit name? In a function like f
> below:
>
> def f(*args):
> f.args = args
> print args
>
> is there any other way?
Not built-in.
> I am guessing the next question will be: should I really care? It just
> feels like there should be a way, but I am not able to verbalise a valid
> one at the moment, sorry.
I completely agree with you. It is a wart that functions are only able to
refer to themselves by name, because if the name changes, things break.
Consider:
old_f = f # save the old version of the function
def f(x):
return old_f(x+1) # make a new function and call it f
This won't work correctly, because old_f still tries to refer to itself
under the name "f", and things break very quickly.
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Steven
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