Function calls and reflection

[Christian Tismer]

Jeremy Yallop wrote:
> * Boethius
> | Can a function tell which function / method called it?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Here's one way:
> 
>   from inspect import currentframe

Note that for simple current frame access, you don't need
to import inspect.
Inspect's currentframe, for Python 2.x, is identical
to sys._getframe.

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