How to get the names of the Python functions in the call stack?

Scripting
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Hi all

I am looking for a way to get the name of a Python function from inside the function.
I tried by the inspect module, callin the stack() function …


import inspect

def f1():
  s = inspect.stack()

f1()

… but I get a “__main__” error.

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… And obviously, the error message shows me all those function names. :slight_smile:
But I’d like to get them without making the script crash.

How can I do that ?

Thanks !

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Hi @emilio, using the inspect module you can try:

import inspect

def DoSomething():
    
    print inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name
    
if __name__ == "__main__":
    DoSomething()

Without that module, you can access __name__ as a property of the function eg:

def DoSomething():
    
    print DoSomething.__name__
    
if __name__ == "__main__":
    DoSomething()

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c.

1 Like
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Hi Clement

Your code works, thanks !

I had tried

  f = inspect.currentframe()
  i = inspect.getframeinfo( f )

And that also gave me the same error.

But

inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name

works fine ! :slight_smile:

Regards