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Python - inspect - Get full caller info: package, module, (class), function, line.
"""
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, December 2004
Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar <sam@hocevar.net>
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.
"""
import inspect
def caller_info(skip=2):
"""Get the name of a caller in the format module.class.method.
Copied from: https://gist.github.com/techtonik/2151727
:arguments:
- skip (integer): 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.
:returns:
- package (string): caller package.
- module (string): caller module.
- klass (string): caller classname if one otherwise None.
- caller (string): caller function or method (if a class exist).
- line (int): the line of the call.
- 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]
# module and packagename.
module_info = inspect.getmodule(parentframe)
if module_info:
mod = module_info.__name__.split('.')
package = mod[0]
module = mod[1]
# class name.
klass = None
if 'self' in parentframe.f_locals:
klass = parentframe.f_locals['self'].__class__.__name__
# method or function name.
caller = None
if parentframe.f_code.co_name != '<module>': # top level usually
caller = parentframe.f_code.co_name
# call line.
line = parentframe.f_lineno
# Remove reference to frame
# See: https://docs.python.org/3/library/inspect.html#the-interpreter-stack
del parentframe
return package, module, klass, caller, line
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