Introspection at the module level?
Roy Smith
roy at panix.com
Sat Mar 6 11:08:58 EST 2004
I've got a module that defines a bunch of constants:
OP_FOO = 1
OP_BAR = 2
OP_BAZ = 37
and so on. The values are all unique. I want to build, at module
import time, a reverse map of these constants, i.e. I want to end up
with:
{1: "OP_FOO", 2: "OP_BAR", 37: "OP_BAZ"}
I can find the appropriate symbols:
for name in dir():
if name.startswith ("OP_"):
print name
But I don't see how to get the values. Getattr() is sort of what I
want, but it works on objects, not modules. Not to mention that I don't
see how to get a handle to the module from inside the module, i.e.
there's no "self".
What am I missing?
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