What is my module name?

[Carel Fellinger]

Clark C . Evans <cce at clarkevans.com> wrote:
> I have a module with a function below I
> use __name__ to return the module name.
> However, when I call the function from 
> outside, it returns '__builtin__'.  Is

I wonder how you get those results.

$ python
>>> __name__
'__main__'

$ cat a.py
def name(): return __name__

print "a:", name()

$ python a.py
a: __main__

$ cat b.py
import a
print "b", a.name()

$ python b.py
a: a
b: a

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groetjes, carel