How can I know the name of "caller"

Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens stefan.sonnenberg at pythonmeister.com
Tue Jun 19 16:50:51 EDT 2007


billiejoex schrieb:
> Hi there,
> unfortunately, I'm compelled to apply a sort of monkey patching at the
> code of an existing libreary that I can't modify directly.
> Here's my question
> Having such code:
>
> class test:
>
>     def caller(self):
>         self.b()
>
>     def called(self):
>         pass
>
> ...(if it is possible) how can I get, from method "called", the name
> of function/method that called it (in this case "caller")?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>   
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