self for modules

[Bertram Scharpf]

Hallo,

Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> schrieb:
>
> "Bertram Scharpf" <b.scharpf at tesionmail.de> wrote in message
> news:slrnc4gvn4.md9.b.scharpf at homer.bertram-scharpf...
>>
>> when I want to access the module itself, I can write
>>
>> ----
>> import sys
>> module_self = sys.modules[ __name__]
>> ----
>>
>> Is there a smarter way to do this?
>
> shorter and not implementation specific is
>
>>>> mymod = __import__(__name__)
>>>> mymod
><module '__main__' (built-in)>
>
> I presume this works in imported module also.

Nice idea, indeed. Thank you.

Bertram

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