How to pass a reference to the current module

[James Stroud]

James Stroud wrote:
> James Stroud wrote:
> 
>> Basically, what I am trying to acomplish is to be able to do this in 
>> any arbitrary module or __main__:
>>
>>
>> funcname = determined_externally()
>> ModuleUser.do_something_with(AModule, funcname)
>>
>>
>> Ideally, it would be nice to leave out AModule if the functions were 
>> designed in the same namespace in which do_something_with is called.
> 
> 
> 
> Is this the preferred way?
> 
> 
> import sys
> def do_something_with(funcname, amodule=None):
>   if amodule is None:
>     function = sys._getframe(1).f_locals[funcname]
>   else:
>     function = getattr(amodule, funcname)
>   [etc.]
> 
> 
> James
> 

_.replace('locals', 'globals')

James

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