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[Python-ideas] Access to function objects

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Tue Aug 9 02:09:23 CEST 2011 
Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:

> To me it just means that __func__ will remain esoteric, which is just
> fine with me. I wouldn't be surprised if there were use cases where it
> was *desirable* to have a way (from the inside) to access the
> undecorated function (somewhat similar to the thing with modules
> below).

Perhaps I misunderstand the functionality, but:

The ability to access the undecorated function would be of great help in
our Django-based project. Django is very decorator-happy, and we are
trying to introspect code and, given a particular URL, determine the
innermost function (more precisely, what location in our code) that
actually handles that URL.

Is that a use-case of interest?

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