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Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it

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In article <c9548d77-ccc3-4b47-b84b-9a9f0c2852ce@googlegroups.com>,
 Abhas Bhattacharya <abhasbhattacharya2@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?

Do you need it at compile-time, or is it good enough to have the name a 
run-time?  Assuming the latter, then I'm thinking the traceback module 
is your friend.  Call traceback.extract_stack() and pull off the last 
frame in the stack.  The function name will be in there.

There may be a cleaner way, but that's what I've done in the past.

I've only ever wanted the name.  If you need the actual function object, 
I suppose you might eval() the name, or something like that.

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Finding the name of a function while defining it Abhas Bhattacharya <abhasbhattacharya2@gmail.com> - 2012-12-25 18:00 -0800
  Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-12-25 22:11 -0500
    Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it Abhas Bhattacharya <abhasbhattacharya2@gmail.com> - 2012-12-26 23:26 -0800
      Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-12-27 18:48 +1100
        Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it Abhas Bhattacharya <abhasbhattacharya2@gmail.com> - 2012-12-26 23:52 -0800
        Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it Abhas Bhattacharya <abhasbhattacharya2@gmail.com> - 2012-12-26 23:52 -0800
    Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-12-27 12:59 +0000
  Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2012-12-26 20:52 -0800
    Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-12-27 16:44 +1100
      Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it Abhas Bhattacharya <abhasbhattacharya2@gmail.com> - 2012-12-26 23:46 -0800
        Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-12-27 18:52 +1100
          Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it Abhas Bhattacharya <abhasbhattacharya2@gmail.com> - 2012-12-26 23:55 -0800
          Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it Abhas Bhattacharya <abhasbhattacharya2@gmail.com> - 2012-12-26 23:55 -0800
      Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it Abhas Bhattacharya <abhasbhattacharya2@gmail.com> - 2012-12-26 23:46 -0800
        Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-12-27 10:58 +0000
          Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2012-12-27 07:32 -0600
            Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-12-27 13:34 +0000
          Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-12-27 10:09 -0500
            Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-12-28 01:07 +0000
    Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it Abhas Bhattacharya <abhasbhattacharya2@gmail.com> - 2012-12-26 23:45 -0800
      Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it Mitya Sirenef <msirenef@lightbird.net> - 2012-12-27 03:03 -0500
        Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it Abhas Bhattacharya <abhasbhattacharya2@gmail.com> - 2012-12-27 00:26 -0800
          Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it Mitya Sirenef <msirenef@lightbird.net> - 2012-12-27 04:07 -0500
        Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it Abhas Bhattacharya <abhasbhattacharya2@gmail.com> - 2012-12-27 00:26 -0800
      Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2012-12-27 00:58 -0800
      Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2012-12-28 21:01 -0800
      Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2012-12-29 12:18 +0200
  Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2012-12-27 00:26 -0800
    Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it Abhas Bhattacharya <abhasbhattacharya2@gmail.com> - 2012-12-27 00:42 -0800
    Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it Abhas Bhattacharya <abhasbhattacharya2@gmail.com> - 2012-12-27 00:42 -0800
  Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-12-27 13:31 +0000
    Re: Finding the name of a function while defining it alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2012-12-27 17:25 -0800

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