Name of function caller

HMS Surprise

Is there a way that a function may access the doc string or func_name
of the caller?

Thanks,

jvh

May 15 '07 #1

Paul McGuire

On May 15, 4:59 pm, HMS Surprise <j...@datavoiceint.comwrote:

Is there a way that a function may access the doc string or func_name
of the caller?

Thanks,

jvh

Yes. The inspect module allows you to look up the call stack for
information on the caller, the caller's caller, local vars, etc.

-- Paul

May 15 '07 #2

HMS Surprise

On May 15, 5:13 pm, Paul McGuire <p...@austin.rr.comwrote:

On May 15, 4:59 pm, HMS Surprise <j...@datavoiceint.comwrote:

Is there a way that a function may access the doc string or func_name
of the caller?

Thanks,

jvh

Yes. The inspect module allows you to look up the call stack for
information on the caller, the caller's caller, local vars, etc.

-- Paul

Thanks Paul.

Running jython 2.2. No module named inspect or cInspect
drat...

May 15 '07 #3

John Machin

On May 16, 8:56 am, HMS Surprise <j...@datavoiceint.comwrote:

On May 15, 5:13 pm, Paul McGuire <p...@austin.rr.comwrote:

On May 15, 4:59 pm, HMS Surprise <j...@datavoiceint.comwrote:

Is there a way that a function may access the doc string or func_name
of the caller?

Thanks,

jvh

Yes. The inspect module allows you to look up the call stack for
information on the caller, the caller's caller, local vars, etc.

-- Paul

Thanks Paul.

Running jython 2.2. No module named inspect or cInspect

drat...

According to the current docs, inspect was new in Python 2.1. You've
been in more strife than Paris Hilton recently and it's hard to keep
track, but IIRC you're the guy with the badly-stuffed sys.path ...
have a look on your disk(s). OTOH maybe inspect depends on the
internal call stack implementation --- in that case you would need to
ask on the jython mailing-list.

HTH,
John

May 15 '07 #4

James Stroud

HMS Surprise wrote:

Is there a way that a function may access the doc string or func_name
of the caller?

Thanks,

jvh

Add a parameter to the function to avoid mutilating your code with
implementation specific inspection:

def fun(caller, *original_parameters):
do_something_to_caller_without_magic(caller)
do_something_with_original_parameters(*original_pa rameters)

James

May 15 '07 #5