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Python - inspect - Get full caller name (package.module.function)
# Public Domain, i.e. feel free to copy/paste
# Considered a hack in Python 2
import inspect
def caller_name(skip=2):
"""Get a name of a caller in the format module.class.method
`skip` specifies how many levels of stack to skip while getting caller
name. skip=1 means "who calls me", skip=2 "who calls my caller" etc.
An empty string is returned if skipped levels exceed stack height
"""
stack = inspect.stack()
start = 0 + skip
if len(stack) < start + 1:
return ''
parentframe = stack[start][0]
name = []
module = inspect.getmodule(parentframe)
# `modname` can be None when frame is executed directly in console
# TODO(techtonik): consider using __main__
if module:
name.append(module.__name__)
# detect classname
if 'self' in parentframe.f_locals:
# I don't know any way to detect call from the object method
# XXX: there seems to be no way to detect static method call - it will
# be just a function call
name.append(parentframe.f_locals['self'].__class__.__name__)
codename = parentframe.f_code.co_name
if codename != '<module>': # top level usually
name.append( codename ) # function or a method
del parentframe
return ".".join(name)
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vipwp commented Apr 24, 2019

Think you,it's very useful~

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I've never used Python before, is this too hard to use?

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