getting a reference to a class inside its definition

[Alex Martelli]

"dan" <dan at eevolved.com> wrote in message
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> Still, I want to be able to reference a class inside it's own definition.

The class object does not *EXIST* until its classbody has
*FINISHED* executing, I believe.  That makes it rather hard
to reference it.  You can reference the *dictionary* that
will become the namespace for the class's object -- it's
what locals() returns in class-body scope.

> Is this possible or am I going to have to do
>
> class SomeClass:
>     pass
> SomeClass.clsref = SomeClass
>
> because that's what I'm doing now...

I think this is the correct way (well it DOES create a
reference-cycle of course, which may well make for some
garbage-collection work, but I guess you know that).


Alex