the name of a method

[Diez B. Roggisch]

thomas.steffen75 at googlemail.com wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have a Class:
> 
> class myClass:
>     def __init__(self):
>         # do something
>         print "name of class = " +  self.__class__.__name__
> 
>     def myMethod(self):
>         # do something
>         print "name of method = " + "myMethod"
>         return
> 
>     ...
> 
> I print the name of the class with self.__class__.__name__ in
> __init__.
> I want to print also in every method of myClass the name of the
> method.
> How can I get the name? I would not like to write e.g. "myMethod". Is
> there a variable like self.__class__.__name__ for this?
> Thanks for your hints, Thomas

This can be done by inspecting the stackframes. Look into the module
inspect. This has also been discussed very often on this list, stackframe &
inspect should be good searchterms.

However, if what you are after is logging, you should take a look into the
logging module. it has many advantages over simple print-statements, and
amongst other things allows you to print out the enclosing callable name
when invoked ala

logger.debug("Some message.")

I strongly recommend using that. And at least you can of course peek into
the logging module's source to see how the extract that information.

Diez