Return name of caller function?

[Matthew Peter]

> The code below doesn't do the trick for you?
> 
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import inspect
> 
> def master():
>     print "I am the master"
>     slave()
> 
> def slave():
>     stack = inspect.stack()
>     caller = stack[1][3]
>     print "I am the slave; my caller was %s" % caller
> 
> def main():
>     master()
> 
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>     main()
[..]

Yes. That does work. I was testing with an aliased instance of function which was
returning <module>

>>>a = slave
>>>print a()
<module>

Is regex'ing stack[1][4] the only way to return 'a' in this instance?


 
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