A Friday 04 September 2009 21:06:09 nicky van foreest escrigué:
> Hi,
>
> I realize my question is somewhat off-topic for the pytables
> community, but the problem originates from my using pytables. In the
> skeleton code below I do not like to use the function's name to get
> the doc string.
>
> def dumFunction():
> """This function will gain me with the Nobel Prize...in another
> life.""" fp = openFile("res.h5", mode='a')
> results = []
> resArray = fp.createArray(fp.root, "Pete", results,
> dumFunction.__doc__)
>
>
> Now I would rather not pass dumFunction.__doc__ as an argument.
> Instead, I want to use something like the C++ pointer this, that is,
> something like this.__doc__. In other words, how do I get a reference
> to the doc string, without having to use the function's name?
The next should do the trick:
mydoc = getattr(eval(sys._getframe().f_code.co_name), "__doc__")
See recipe 14.7 of the excellent "Python Cookbook" book by Alex Martelli &
David Ascher for details on this solution.
HTH,
--
Francesc Alted
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