can functions know/learn who they are?

[Skaperen]

passing the name is what i am doing now. i'm wanting to make all of these work just like real functions so that instead of:

    do_request('foobar','blah')

i can do:

    foobar('blah')

i do not have the list of names until run time. if i code a call that turns out not to be in the list, it should fail like any other attempt to call a function that does not exist.

the botocore library does something similar. it creates an object in which it adds a bunch of functions as attributes so you end up with a call like:

    object.associate_vpc_cidr_block(**options)

if i could do this with attributes on one object that would be nearly as good.