function which knows who has called it.

[Darrell]

You can get the callers name from this also.
But that's up to you.

def myDirExcept(howFarBack):
        """
        Get the directory of the module running at "howfarBack "
        in the stack frames
        This value is compiled into the .pyc file
        This can be a problem.
        Name will change depending on where python was run from
        when the pyc file was created
        Unix can store a relative path
        Windows stores an absolute path
        """
        try:
                raise ZeroDivisionError
        except ZeroDivisionError:
                f = sys.exc_info()[2].tb_frame

        for i in range(howFarBack):
                f = f.f_back

        t = f.f_code
        fname = t.co_filename
        p = string.split(fname, os.sep)
        fname = string.join(p[:-1], os.sep)
        return fname


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--Darrell
Phil Hunt <philh at vision25.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:934841569snz at vision25.demon.co.uk...
>
> Is if possible in Python to have a function that prints the name
> of the function that called it. (I'm thinking of using this in
> some debugging code I want to write).
>
> --
> Phil Hunt....philh at vision25.demon.co.uk
>