On Sun, 7 Aug 2011 09:07:02 -0400 Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
While this may sound a little hypocritical coming from the author of PEPs 366 and 395, I'm wary of adding new implicit module globals for problems with relatively simple and robust alternatives. In this case, it's fairly easy to get access to the current module using the idiom Guido quoted:
import sys _this = sys.modules[__name__]
(or using dict-style access on globals())
Yeah, well, in most cases I find having to reference sys.modules a distraction and an unwarranted jump into the implementation. It may not even work: there are some recipes that replace sys.modules[__name__] with some wrapper object. If __this_module__ existed it would of course refer to the "real" module object involved.
I would also add a ton of reference cycles and might create new juicy problems in the module shutdown procedure :) Regards Antoine.