Return name of caller function?

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 01:25:14PM -0700, Matthew Peter wrote:
> Parsing the stack's tuple to get those attributes didn't feel reliable or pythonic.
> I am likely overlooking something. Is there a brief example you could show me in the
> context of using inspect to accomplish the goal I outlined above? The goal is using
> a function and not a class. Thanks!

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()

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