Does python have an internal list/dictionary of functions?

[Carl J. Van Arsdall]

Python Gurus:

Let me elaborate a bit more on this question. Basically, I want to know
if there is some data structure in python that maps a string function
name to an address of a function or something to that nature.

If this is confusing, let me describe what I want to do and see if
anyone has any ideas.

basically we have:
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>>>def functA():[/color][/color][/color]
.... pass
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>>> functA[/color][/color][/color]
<function functA at 80db128>

And what I'd like to do is:
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>>>__internalFu ncDict__['functA'][/color][/color][/color]
<function functA at 80db128>

This is just for a little experimental project of mine, any help or
pointers to the proper pages in the manual would be greatly
appreciated. Basically, I know that I can create something like this if
I have to but I was very much hoping that something already existed
somewhere that I could get to via python or by writing a C extension.

Thanks in advance!

-carl


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Carl J. Van Arsdall
cvanarsdall@mvi sta.com
Build and Release
MontaVista Software

[Raymond Hettinger]

Re: Does python have an internal list/dictionary of functions?

[Carl J. Van Arsdall][color=blue]
> basically we have:
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> >>>def functA():[/color][/color]
> ... pass
>[color=green][color=darkred]
> >>> functA[/color][/color]
> <function functA at 80db128>
>
> And what I'd like to do is:
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> >>>__internalFu ncDict__['functA'][/color][/color]
> <function functA at 80db128>[/color]

globals()['functA']