who is my caller?

[Emile van Sebille]

It appears you can get to the callers locals and globals.  Looking at
traceback, you find sys.exc_info(), which leads to [2].tb_frame which gets
you to f_locals and f_globals.


Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Clark C. Evans" <cce at clarkevans.com>
To: "Emile van Sebille" <emile at fenx.com>
Cc: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 7:15 AM
Subject: Re: who is my caller?


> On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Emile van Sebille wrote:
> > If I'm not mistaken, with 2.0 you can directly import traceback without
> > needing to generate an exception first.
>
> I was actually looking to do something like..
>
>     caller = traceback.call_stack.top()
>     try:
>       if '0h3kfd' = caller.check('key'):
>           # ok... you passed security
>     except:
>       pass
>
> A string print-out is useless... I'm after
> the function objects....
>
> This brings up another question, if I
> have a function can I get the module
> handle; or if I have a bound-function can
> I fetch the object that it is part of?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Clark
>
>
>
>