[Tutor] Name of a module within itself

[D-Man]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:02:08PM +0530, lonetwin@yahoo.com wrote:
|  Hi there,
|   One quick question, suppose I create a file (say 'foo.py'), that has classes
|   MyFoo, HisFoo, HerFoo, and a function main(). Now, from main I need to
|   refer to the name of the module (foo), such that, I could do something like:
| 
| def main():
|   	....
| 	....
| 	getattr([refer to this module], 'HisFoo')
| 	....
| 	....
| 	
|   how do I do that ?

Why do you want to use the getattr function?  You could simply say

def main() :
    ...
    HisFoo
    ...

since main and HisFoo are in the same module.  That will be clearer
and works just as well.  I don't think there is any way around
accessing a module-level variable like that.  Inside a module there is
the __name__ attribute that is a string containing the name of the
module.  You could use sys.modules or __import__ to get the module
object based on the name, but you have to get the name by referencing
a module object and you might as well just get that class directly.

HTH,
-D