[Tutor] Accessing the name of a Function

[Carroll, Barry]

Andreas:

You're right, that is kind of messy and somewhat limited.  In the
present case, however, it is the function's defined name that I want, so
this would work okay.  

I'm guessing that there is a way to determine the number and names of
the arguments to the function as well.  I'll go look at the sys module
and see what I can find.  

Regards,
 
Barry
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Kostyrka [mailto:andreas at kostyrka.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 4:05 PM
> To: Carroll, Barry
> Cc: tutor at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Accessing the name of a Function
> 
> * Carroll, Barry <Barry.Carroll at psc.com> [061212 23:54]:
> >    Greetings:
> >
> >
> >
> >    Is it possible, from inside a stand-alone function (not a member
of a
> >    class), to access the string representation of the function's
name?
> If
> >    so, how?
> Probably, but it's dirty like help (sys._getframe would be your ticket
> into this), but you ask on the tutor mailing list, so you'll probably
> don't want this:
> 
> def func(x):
>      return 2 * x
> 
> gunc = func
> del func
> 
> print gunc(10)
> 
> The best you can hope to derive is "func" here, but as you can see,
> functions are only objects that can be assigned freely.
> 
> (Spoiler: it's sys._getframe(0).f_code.co_name, but it will always
> only know the name the function was defined under. No way to know how
> it was named when it was called. So it's not worth much.)
> 
> Andreas
> >
> >
> >
> >    Regards,
> >
> >
> >
> >    Barry
> >
> >    [1]barry.carroll at psc.com
> >
> >    541-302-1107
> >
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> >
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