a module who knows its caller

[Jp Calderone]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 09:12:35AM -0700, Michele Simionato wrote:
> I have a module (say m.py) that can be called by different scripts (say a.py 
> and b.py). I want m.py to be able to tell if it has been called by a.py or
> by b.py.

  Why?

> 
> What I do now is to pass the global name __file__ to a function m.beencalledby:
> something like
> 
> # a.py
> import m
> m.beencalledby(__file__)  # __file__ is a.py
> 
> 
> # b.py
> import m
> m.beencalledby(__file__)  # __file__ is b.py
> 
> # m.py
> 
> def beencalledby(fname): print 'I have been called by',fname
> 
> it works, but I wonder if there is a more elegant solution.
> 

  The inspect module can certainly do this with "magically", but I would
recommend against this kind of thing for anything other than getting extra
information for debugging (and even then, I would recommend pdb first).

  Jp

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