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Is it possible to determine the name of the currently executing function?

Nov 19th, 2008 21:42
Chris Zate, unknown unknown, Alex Martelli

Sure -- piece o' cake...:
def caller(n=1):
    from traceback import extract_stack
    stack = extract_stack()
    return stack[-n-2][2]
# Example usage:
def a():
    print "this is", caller(0)
    b()
def b():
    print "and this is",caller(0),
    print "called by",caller()
Expected output by calling a():
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this is a
and this is b called by a