How do I get the name of a function or method from within a Python function or method?

Question

I feel like I should know this, but I haven't been able to figure it out...

I want to get the name of a method--which happens to be an integration test--from inside it so it can print out some diagnostic text. I can, of course, just hard-code the method's name in the string, but I'd like to make the test a little more DRY if possible.

Answer 1

This seems to be the simplest way using module inspect:

import inspect
def somefunc(a,b,c):
    print "My name is: %s" % inspect.stack()[0][3]

You could generalise this with:

def funcname():
    return inspect.stack()[1][3]

def somefunc(a,b,c):
    print "My name is: %s" % funcname()

Credit to Stefaan Lippens which was found via google.