how to get name of function from within function?

[Christopher J. Bottaro]

Kent Johnson wrote:

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>> I guess I'm just lazy, but I don't want to write the wrapper func for
>> each
>> new func I want to add.  I want it done automatically.
> 
> You can do this almost automatically with a decorator:
> 
> def in_try(func):
>     def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
>         try:
>             return func(*args, **kwargs)
>         except:
>             print "entered except"
>             raise
>     return wrapper
> 
> class C(object):
>     @in_try
>     def func_a(self):
>         print "func_a"
>         
>     @in_try
>     def func_b(self):
>         print "func_b"
>         raise Exception
> 
> You could probably create a metaclass to apply the wrappers automatically
> but I like having it explicit as above.

Another good solution, thank you.  Maybe a reason to upgrade to 2.4...=)
 
> Kent

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