namespace issue

[Steven Bethard]

Daniel Nogradi wrote:
> I would like to give the same name to a keyword argument of a class
> method as the name of a function, with the function and the class
> living in the same namespace and the class method using the
> aforementioned function. So far I've been unsuccesfully trying to go
> along these lines:
> 
> def great_name( x ):
>     return x.upper( )
> 
> class myclass:
>     def mymethod( self, great_name=False ):
>         if great_name:
>             return great_name( 'something' )
>         else:
>             return 'something'
> 

 >>> def great_name(x):
...     return x.upper()
...
 >>> class myclass(object):
...     def mymethod(self, great_name=False):
...         if great_name:
...             return globals()['great_name']('something')
...         else:
...             return 'something'
...
 >>> myclass().mymethod()
'something'
 >>> myclass().mymethod(True)
'SOMETHING'


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