How can a function access its own attributes?

Question

is it possible to access the python function object attributes from within the function scope?

e.g. let\'s have

def f():
    return          


        

Answer 1

How about using a class instead of a function and abusing the __new__ method to make the class callable as a function? Since the __new__ method gets the class name as the first parameter, it can access all the class attributes

like in

class f(object):
        def __new__(cls, x):
            print cls.myattribute
            return x

this works as in

f.myattribute = "foo"
f(3)
foo
3

then you can do

g=f
f=None
g(3)
foo
3

The issue is that even if the object behaves like a function, it is not. Hence IDEs fail to provide you with the signature.