access the name of my method inside it

[Steve Holden]

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:06:42 +0000, james_027 wrote:
> 
>> for example I have this method
>>
>> def my_method():
>>     # do something
>>
>>     # how do I get the name of this method which is my_method here?
> 
> Why do you need this?  There are ways but those are not really good for
> production code.
> 
Maybe he wants to write a recursive method?

Once way is to call self.__calss__.mymethod(self). Ugly, isn't it?

 >>> class p:
...   def mymethod(self, n):
...     if n <= 1:
...       return 1
...     else:
...       return n * self.__class__.mymethod(self, n-1)
...
 >>> pp = p()
 >>> pp.mymethod(10)
3628800
 >>>

regards
  Steve
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