[Tutor] Name of a module within itself

[lonetwin@yahoo.com]

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, steve wrote:

>On Saturday 21 July 2001 23:33, D-man wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:02:08PM +0530, lonetwin@yahoo.com wrote:
>> |  Hi there,
>> |   One quick question, suppose I create a file (say 'foo.py'), that has
>> | classes MyFoo, HisFoo, HerFoo, and a function main(). Now, from main I
>> | need to refer to the name of the module (foo), such that, I could do
>> | something like:
>> |
>> | def main():
>> | 	....
>> | 	getattr([refer to this module], 'HisFoo')
>> | 	....
>> |   how do I do that ?
>>
>> Why do you want to use the getattr function?  You could simply say
>>
>> def main() :
>>     ...
>>     HisFoo
>>     ...
>> <..snip..>

>Hi there D-man,
> Thanx for replying....although I can't really use it like you said. Let me 
>explain, here's what I'm trying to do:
>
>class Base:
>	....
>
>class Sub1(Base):
>	ObjA = 'foo'
>	....
>
>class Sub2(Base):
>	ObjA = 'bar'
>
>def main():
>	....
>	x = funcReturnsSub1orSub2() # x can be either a Sub1 or a Sub2
>
>	y = getattr([refer to this module], x).ObjA
>	# y would be an ObjA irrespective of what x is, so y='foo' | y='bar'
>
> <..snip..>

Hi everybody,
 Yet again, I've proved I go around looking for complex solutions to simple
 problems <donks himself> donk donk donk !!! well, here's what I am happily doing
 now:
 the funcReturnsSub1orSub2()  (..refer above..) used to return a string 'Sub1'
 or 'Sub2'(....how immensely dumb !!!...), when all that I needed was an actual Sub1
 or Sub2, so, now instead of:
 
 x = funcReturnsSub1orSub2()
 y = getattr([refer to this module], x).ObjA

 I do:

 x = funcReturnsSub1orSub2()
 y = x.ObjA

 <ducks and runs for cover from all kinds of *objects* being hurled at him>
 Sorry D-man, I think I wasted your time on this one :D

 When will I learn !!!!

Peace
Steve
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