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Finding the local name of a module from within that module
def install():
    print 'Local module name is %s' % __localModuleName__

import myModule as mm
mm.install()

Local module name is mm

MODULENAME = None
fr = inspect.currentframe()
try:
    while fr and not MODULENAME:
        if fr.f_globals:
            for name, obj in fr.f_globals.iteritems():
                if hasattr(obj, '__file__') and inspect.ismodule(obj) and obj.__file__ == __file__:
                    MODULENAME = name
        fr = fr.f_back
except:
    pass
finally:
    del fr

import module
othername = module
del module

__import__("sys").modules["<module_name>"].run()

import some.plugin as wanna_have

wanna_have.install(globals(), "wanna_have")

print 'Local module name is %s'%[key for key in vars() if 'myModule' in str(vars()[key])][0]

import numpy as np

print 'Local module name is %s',[key for key in vars() if 'numpy' in str(vars()[key])][0]

Local module name is np