Any way for a function to refer to itself?

[Emile van Sebille]

I'm not sure if it always plays nice, but you may try
starting with:

>>> def test():
 "test function description"
 import traceback
 me = eval( traceback.extract_stack()[-1][2])
 print "DocString: %s  functionName: %s " % (me.__doc__,
me.__name__)


>>> test()
DocString: test function description  functionName: test

HTH

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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com
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"Lee, Rick" <rickylee at americasm01.nt.com> wrote in message
news:3A956962.3BBFED86 at americasm01.nt.com...
> I can't find any other way for a function or method to
refer to itself
> than something like the following:
>
> def foo():
>     myself = foo   # only if foo is global
>     mydoc = myself.__doc__
>     myname = myself.__name__
>
> So it can be done this way, but:
>
> - only if the function name can actually be accessed from
the current
> name space
> - if the function name changes, that first line inside
this function
> also has to change
>
> Seems to me there should be a more "Pythonic" way of doing
this.  Is
> there?
>