> Why not just:
>
> import whatevermynameis
>
> whatevermynameis.foo = bar
>
> This would be even *more* maximally obvious, as you wouldn't need to
> know what '__me__' means. :) And how often do you write a module
> without knowing what its name is, or change the name after you've
> written it? Plus, thanks to the time machine, it already works. :)
Doesn't work when your module may either be called __main__ or
rumpelstiltkin. It would then become
if __name__ == "__main__":
import __main__ as me
else:
import rumpelstiltkin as me
which loses the "aha!" effect of a cool solution. It also IMO
requires too much explanation to the unsuspecting reader who doesn't
understand right away *why* rumpelstiltkin imports itself.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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