Function attributes

[Arnaud Delobelle]

"Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar> writes:

> En Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:25:00 -0300, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>
> escribió:
>> On 2/10/2010 4:49 PM, Gabriel Genellina wrote:
>>
>>> I've written a decorator for "injecting" a __function__ name into the
>>> function namespace, but I can't find it anywhere. I think I implemented
>>> it by adding a fake additional argument and replacing LOAD_GLOBAL with
>>> LOAD_NAME in the bytecode.
>>
>> The decorator only needs to replace the defaults args tuple.
>> It does not even need to know the parameter name,
>> just that it is the only (or last) with a default .
>>
>> def f(n, me=None):
>>      if n > 0: return n*me(n-1)
>>      elif n==0: return 1
>>
>> f.__defaults__ = (f,) # 3.1
>> print(f(5))
>
> This is simple to implement, but requires changing the function
> definition. My goal was to keep the original code unchanged, that is,
> leave it as:
>
> def f(n):
>        if n > 0: return n*f(n-1)
>        elif n==0: return 1
>
> (like a normal, recursive function), and make the 'f' inside the function
> body "magically" refer to the function itself.

I posted an example of a decorator that does just this in this thread a
couple of days ago:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2010-February/1235742.html

It doesn't require any bytecode hacking, although it requires breaking
apart the function object and making a new one from the bits.

-- 
Arnaud