hitt at eskimo
Sep 12, 2001, 1:53 PM
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referencing the module a piece of code is in
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Hi Sean,
Thanks for your mail.
You are absolutely right.
I was looking for an expression that i could use anywhere
in a file/module and get a reference to the module,
and __name__ (or more exactly, sys.modules[__name__]) does it.
I was inexcusably confused by the fact that functions and classes also
have a __name__ attribute. But indeed inside the scope
of a class, an unqualified __name__ means the name of the module,
not the name of the class.
I still wonder if the sys.modules[] part can be dropped (i.e., if
there's some expression like __this_module__ which directly evaluates
to the module it's in) but that's getting more unreasonable to ask for
since the __name__'s are in one-to-one correspondence with the
modules.
Thanks again Sean.
dan
| On 12-Sep-2001 Dan Hitt wrote:
| > I'd like to be able to get a reference to a module a piece of
| > code is in.
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| you have seen this before:
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| if __name__ == '__main__':
| # do work
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| there is the answer -- __name__ refers to the name of the module.
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