Function attributes

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

John Posner a écrit :
> On 2/10/2010 9:36 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:59:41 -0800, Muhammad Alkarouri wrote:
>>
(snip)

>>> def f(*args):
>>>      f.args = args
>>>      print args
>>>
(snip)
>> I completely agree with you. It is a wart that functions are only able to
>> refer to themselves by name, because if the name changes, things break.
>> Consider:
>>
>> old_f = f  # save the old version of the function
>>
>> def f(x):
>>      return old_f(x+1)  # make a new function and call it f
>>
>> This won't work correctly, because old_f still tries to refer to itself
>> under the name "f", and things break very quickly.
> 
> They didn't break immediately for me -- what am I missing?:

The fact that in the OP's snippet, code inside f's body refers to f by 
its name.