Can you use -getattr- to get a function in the current module?

[Alex Martelli]

Sergio Correia <sergio.correia at gmail.com> wrote:

> This works:
> 
> # Module spam.py
> 
> import eggs
> 
> print getattr(eggs, 'omelet')(100)
> 
> That is, I just call the function omelet inside the module eggs and
> evaulate it with the argument 100.
> 
> But what if the function 'omelet' is in the module where I do the
> getattr (that is, in spam.py).  If I do any of this
> 
> print getattr(spam, 'omelet')(100)
> print getattr('','omelet')(100)
> print getattr('omelet')(100)
> 
> It wont work. Any ideas?

globals() returns a dict of all globals defined so far, so, _after_ 'def
omelet ...' has executed, globals()['omelet'](100) should be OK.


Alex