python: how to refer to the class from within it ( like the recursive function)

Question

For a recursive function we can do:

def f(i):
  if i<0: return
  print i
  f(i-1)

f(10)

However is there a way to do the following thin

Answer 1

There isn't a way to do that within the class scope, not unless A was defined to be something else first (and then some_func(A) will do something entirely different from what you expect)

Unless you're doing some sort of stack inspection to add bits to the class, it seems odd why you'd want to do that. Why not just:

class A:
    # do something
    pass

some_func(A)

That is, run some_func on A after it's been made. Alternately, you could use a class decorator (syntax for it was added in 2.6) or metaclass if you wanted to modify class A somehow. Could you clarify your use case?