Finding the name of a function while defining it

[Abhas Bhattacharya]

On Wednesday, 26 December 2012 08:41:28 UTC+5:30, Roy Smith  wrote:
> In article <c9548d77-ccc3-4b47-b84b-9a9f0c2852ce at googlegroups.com>,
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>  Abhas Bhattacharya <abhasbhattacharya2 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > While I am defining a function, how can I access the name (separately as 
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> > string as well as object) of the function without explicitly naming 
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> > it(hard-coding the name)?
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> > For eg. I am writing like:
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> > def abc():
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> >     #how do i access the function abc here without hard-coding the name?
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> Do you need it at compile-time, or is it good enough to have the name a 
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> run-time?  Assuming the latter, then I'm thinking the traceback module 
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> is your friend.  Call traceback.extract_stack() and pull off the last 
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> frame in the stack.  The function name will be in there.
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> There may be a cleaner way, but that's what I've done in the past.
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> I've only ever wanted the name.  If you need the actual function object, 
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> I suppose you might eval() the name, or something like that.

I need it compile-time.
During run-time, I can always use: function_name.__name__ (although that's kind of lame because it returns "function_name"). But if the function itself contains print(__name__) and I call the function, it returns __main__ (yes, __main__ itself, not the string "__main__") (which is the calling function).