Question

I’m having a hard time figuring out the best way to resolve a name clash. Here’s the gist of what I’ve got in front of me:

def clean():
    # do some cleaning stuff

def build(clean=True):
    if clean:
        clean()

Oops.

For a few reasons, I do not want to change the API here. What is the best strategy to resolve this conflict? For now, I’m doing:

def clean():
    # do some cleaning stuff
clean_alias = clean

def build(clean=True):
    if clean:
        clean_alias()

Which might be the best/only solution short of renaming things. I’m just wondering if there’s a different way to reference the clean that’s in the outer scope from within the body of the function?

Answer 1

Try:

globals()['clean']()

globals()

Return a dictionary representing the current global symbol
table. This is always the dictionary of the current module (inside a
function or method, this is the module where it is defined, not the
module from which it is called).