What is the name of the name space I am in?

Anthra Norell anthra.norell at bluewin.ch
Mon Jul 5 05:07:42 EDT 2010


I try to use "new.new.classobj (name, baseclass, dict)" and have no clue 
what the "dict" of the current name space is. I can name dicts of  
imported modules, because their name exists in the current name space. 
If, for instance, I import a module "service" then that module's name 
space would be "service.__dict__". But if I import * from service, then 
I incorporate that name space into the current one and I cannot name it, 
because the current module's name is not part of the module's own name 
space. "dir (service)" is equivalent to "service.__dict__.keys ()" if 
service is importet. "dir ()" is equivalent to "?.__dict__.keys ()" 
where "?" is the name of the current module, itself not part of the 
current module's name space. So the question mark stands for an implicit 
name that can be neither named nor dropped. So my question is: how does 
one name the dictionary of the name space one is in?

Frederic




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