[Python-3000] PEP 30xx: Access to Module/Class/Function Currently Being Defined (this)

[Steven Bethard]

On 4/23/07, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
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> On Apr 23, 2007, at 9:21 AM, Christian Heimes wrote:
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> > -1 on __module__
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> > I understand PEP 3020 correctly then sys.main will contain the dotted
> > name of the module as *string*.
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> > Also __module__ is already used in objects like classes.
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> I'm not sure whether a general mechanism is necessary or not, but
> I've always wished I could just do something like "import __me__" to
> get the current module.

Well, you can always do::

    __import__(__name__)

That's not much more verbose.

STeVe
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