class checking its own module for an attribute

Rod Person rodperson at rodperson.com
Wed Mar 21 13:06:55 EDT 2012


On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:56:57 -0700
Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Rod Person <rodperson at rodperson.com>
> wrote: <snip>
> > The question is there a way I can do this with out having to import
> > constants when what it's doing is importing itself. It would seem
> > to me that there should be a way for a module to reference itself.
> > In that thinking I have tried
> >
> >  if not(hasattr(__file__, value):
> >  if not(hasattr(__name__, value):
> >
> > and even:
> >
> >  this = sys.argv[0]
> >  if not(hasattr(this, value):
> >
> > None of which works.
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2933470/how-do-i-call-setattr-on-the-current-module
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris

Thank you!

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