How to get a Function object from a Frame object

[Gigi]

Hi,
I need access to a function object that corresponds to a frame object in
a certain case from inside the function.

I can get the frame object using:

f = sys._getframe(0)

But the resulting frame object doesn't contain the information I need.
There is a lot of information in the code object (f.f_code), but not the
actual function or method object.

The inspect module doesn't help either it just provides nicer interface
to the Frame object.

Any ideas out there?

Thanks, Gigi

[Steven Bethard]

Gigi wrote:

I need access to a function object that corresponds to a frame object in
a certain case from inside the function.

I can get the frame object using:

f = sys._getframe(0)

But the resulting frame object doesn't contain the information I need.
There is a lot of information in the code object (f.f_code), but not the
actual function or method object.

The inspect module doesn't help either it just provides nicer interface
to the Frame object.

Any ideas out there?

Can you look up the code's co_name in the previous frame's locals?

py> def getself():
.... frame = sys._getframe(1)
.... return frame.f_back.f_locals[frame.f_code.co_name]
....
py> def g():
.... def h():
.... return getself()
.... return dict(g=getself(), h=h())
....
py> g()
{'h': <function h at 0x01194BB0>, 'g': <function g at 0x01194BF0>}

You probably also need to check the previous frame's globals... And
there are probably some cases where this code still wouldn't work...

STeVe

[Greg Ewing]

Steven Bethard wrote:

Gigi wrote:

I need access to a function object that corresponds to a frame object
in a certain case from inside the function.

Can you look up the code's co_name in the previous frame's locals?

You probably also need to check the previous frame's globals... And
there are probably some cases where this code still wouldn't work...

Note that in general it's impossible to tell exactly
which function object was involved, since there could
be more than one function object sharing the same code
object, and the frame only references the code object.

--
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg

[Gigi]

Greg Ewing wrote:

Steven Bethard wrote:

Gigi wrote:

I need access to a function object that corresponds to a frame object
in a certain case from inside the function.

Can you look up the code's co_name in the previous frame's locals?

You probably also need to check the previous frame's globals... And
there are probably some cases where this code still wouldn't work...

Note that in general it's impossible to tell exactly
which function object was involved, since there could
be more than one function object sharing the same code
object, and the frame only references the code object.

I can get the co_name and everything that's available from the code
object. However, I can't get to the actual function object. I need the
function object to get a custom function attribute that was injected
earlier as context. I didn't know that code objects could be shared. I
guess it really makes the whole thing impossible, unless the code object
kept a list of all the functions that share it. Thanks, anyway. I found
a different solution.