How to get current module object

[Alex]

Can I get reference to module object of current module (from which the
code is currently executed)? I know __import__('fil ename') should
probably do that, but the call contains redundant information (filename,
which needs to be updated), and it'll perform unnecessary search in
loaded modules list.

It shouldn't be a real problem (filename can probably be extracted from
the traceback anyway), but I wonder if there is more direct and less
verbose way.

Thanks

[John Machin]

Re: How to get current module object

On Feb 18, 5:25 am, Alex <noname9...@gma il.comwrote:

Can I get reference to module object of current module (from which the
code is currently executed)? I know __import__('fil ename') should
probably do that, but the call contains redundant information (filename,
which needs to be updated), and it'll perform unnecessary search in
loaded modules list.
>
It shouldn't be a real problem (filename can probably be extracted from
the traceback anyway), but I wonder if there is more direct and less
verbose way.
>

Try this:

C:\junk>type whoami.py
def showme():
import sys
modname = globals()['__name__']
print repr(modname)
module = sys.modules[modname]
print repr(module)
print dir(module)


C:\junk>python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bit
(Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright" , "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>import whoami
>>whoami.showme ()

'whoami'
<module 'whoami' from 'whoami.py'>
['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', 'showme']

>>>