Functions 'knowing' other functions in a module

[Terry Hancock]

gyro wrote:
> This approach seems very kludgy, especially the __import__('mymod')
> line. Is it necessary to 'self import' the module to carry out this
> task? Any suggestions for a better approach? I'm sure that I'm missing
> something obvious.

Open your python interpreter, and paste the following:

def lum():
    print 'lum'

def ataru():
    print 'ataru'

def _enum_functions():
    return [k for k,v in globals().items() 
                if type(v)==type(_enum_functions) and k[0]!='_' ]

_enum_functions()

You should see something like this:
Python 2.2.1 (#1, Sep  7 2002, 14:34:30) 
[GCC 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> 
>>> def lum():
...     print 'lum'
... 
>>> def ataru():
...     print 'ataru'
... 
>>> def _enum_functions():
...     return [k for k,v in globals().items() 
...             if type(v)==type(_enum_functions) and k[0]!='_' ]
... 
>>> _enum_functions()
['ataru', 'lum']

Does that help at all?

Cheers,
Terry

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