On Nov 12, 11:17 am, Joe Strout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some corrections, to highlight the depth of my confusion... > > On Nov 11, 2008, at 9:10 PM, Joe Strout wrote: > > > doctest.testmod(mymodule) > > > This actually works fine if I'm importing the module (with the > > standard name) somewhere else > > Actually, it does not. > > > I noticed that a function object has a __module__ attribute, that is > > a reference to the module the function is in. > > And no, it isn't; it's the NAME of the module the function is in. I'm > not sure what good that does me. docstring.testmod does take an > optional "name" parameter, but the documentation (at least in 2.5.2) > does not explain what this parameter is used for. I tried using it > thusly: > > doctest.testmod(name=_test.__module__) > > but that didn't work; it appears to still be testing the __main__ > module. (Perhaps the name parameter is only used to describe the > module in the output, in which case, all I've accomplished here is > getting doctest to lie.) > > > I'm sure there is a magic identifier somewhere that lets a code get > > a reference to its own module, but I haven't been able to find it. > > Can someone share a clue? > > This question remains open. :) > > Thanks, > - Joe
import sys this_module = sys.modules[__name__] sys.modules is a dictionary of all modules which have been imported during the current session. Since the module had to be imported to access it, it will be in there. '__name__' is available inside functions because it is in the module scope. Classes are a little more tricky because doing something like: this_module = sys.modules[self.__class__.__module__] will return a different module if the class is inherited in a different module (since the base class is __class__ now). However, putting a function at the module level (in the super-class module) should anchor the results (untested though). I'm not sure if this is the answer you need with regards to doctest, but it I think it answers the question in the subject of this thread. - Rafe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
