Finding a function name

[Tim Williams]

[ 1 step up from Newbie ]

How can I find a function's name from within the function?

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but from within the function itself, print (either option) gives
"container"

TIA

 

[Christopher T King]

How can I find a function's name from within the function?

You can't (yet), in a top-level function at least. In an object's
method, you can do this:

class a(object):
def foo(self):
print self.foo.__name__

But that requires you to know the function's name to begin with

Going off on a tangent, this is a case where some sort of reverse function
attributes would be of help:

def foo(a,b,c):
.someattr = "something" # <-- proposed function attribute,
# assigned at compile time

print .someattr, .__name__ # <-- proposed reverse function attribute,
# accessed at runtime

But right now there's no such thing in Python.

 

[Peter Hansen]

[ 1 step up from Newbie ]

How can I find a function's name from within the function?

Did you try Google yet?

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=group:comp.lang.python+find+function+name

-Peter