Finding the name of a function while defining it

[Abhas Bhattacharya]

On Thursday, 27 December 2012 10:22:15 UTC+5:30, Tim Roberts  wrote:
> 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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> Why?  Of what value would that be?
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> Note that I'm not merely being obstructionist here.  What you're asking
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> here is not something that a Python programmer would normally ask.  The
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> compiled code in a function, for example, exists as an object without a
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> name.  That unnamed object can be bound to one or more function names, but
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> the code doesn't know that.  Example:
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> def one():
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>     print( "Here's one" )
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> two = one
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> That creates one function object, bound to two names.  What name would you
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> expect to grab inside the function?
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> Even more obscure:
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> two = lamba : "one"
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> one = two
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> Which one of these is the "name" of the function?
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> -- 
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> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
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> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

It is of quite value to me.
Because I have this situation:
I have used a dictionary with "function_name":value pair in the top of the code. Now when some function is called, I need to print the value assigned to its name in the dictionary (the functions are defined after the dictionary). Now there is only one bad way-around for me: I need to hard-code the name in the function like this:
def function_name():
    print(dict_name.get("function_name"))
but ofcourse it is a bad thing to do because I have a lot of this type of  functions. It would be better if I can can use the same code for all of them, because they are all essentially doing the same thing.

Now, for your questions:
If i call one() and two() respectively, i would like to see "one" and "two".
I dont have much knowledge of lambda functions, neither am i going to use them, so that's something I cant answer.