On Dec 25, 2012 6:06 PM, "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?
Not possible per se without resorting to sys._getframe() or similar hackery. A simple+elegant way to do this would require PEP 3130 ( http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3130/ ) or similar, but that particular proposal got rejected.
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