self for modules

[Terry Reedy]

"Bertram Scharpf" <b.scharpf at tesionmail.de> wrote in message
news:slrnc4gvn4.md9.b.scharpf at homer.bertram-scharpf...
> Hi,
>
> when I want to access the module itself, I can write
>
> ----
> import sys
> module_self = sys.modules[ __name__]
> ----
>
> Is there a smarter way to do this?

shorter and not implementation specific is

>>> mymod = __import__(__name__)
>>> mymod
<module '__main__' (built-in)>

I presume this works in imported module also.

Terry J. Reedy