function attributes

Question

I want to use function attributes to set variable values as an alternate to using global variables. But sometimes I assign another short name to a function. The behavior seems to always do what I want, i.e. the value gets assigned to the function whether I use the long or short name, as shown below. Is there any danger in this?

def flongname():
    pass

f = flongname
f.f1 = 10
flongname.f2 = 20
print flongname.f1, f.f2

And the last line returns 10 20 showing that the different function names refer to the same function object. Right?

Answer 1

id shows that the both f and flongname are references to the same object.

>>> def flongname():
...     pass
... 
>>> f = flongname
>>> id(f)
140419547609160
>>> id(flongname)
140419547609160
>>> 

so yes- the behavior you're experiencing is expected.