To get to the module object from the body of the module itself, the usual trick is to import it from itself, as in:

x.py:
import x
do_stuff_with(x)

This fails strangely if x is in a package:

package/x.py:
import package.x
do_stuff_with(package.x)

The last line triggers an AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'x'.  In other words, the import succeeds but the expression 'package.x' still isn't valid after it.