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Finding the name of a function while defining it

Abhas Bhattacharya abhasbhattacharya2 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 27 02:55:48 EST 2012 
On Thursday, 27 December 2012 13:22:45 UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico  wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Abhas Bhattacharya
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> <abhasbhattacharya2 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > [ a whole lot of double-spaced quoted text - please trim it ]
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> > If i call one() and two() respectively, i would like to see "one" and "two".
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> That completely goes against your idea of knowing at compile-time,
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> because the name "two" isn't anywhere around at that time.
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> There's no way to know what name was used to look something up. It
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> might not even have a name - the called function could well have been
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> returned from another function:
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> # foo.py
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> def indirection():
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>   return lambda: print
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> # bar.py
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> import foo
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> foo.indirection()()("Hello, world!")
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> What are the names of all the functions called here?
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> ChrisA

Yes, I get it that it may not be possible in complex cases (mostly using lambda functions). But in the simple case I mentioned, is it possible?
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