Python – Get Name of Current Function

Q: How do I get the name of the current python function, I want to output its name as part of some logging information.

A: Just import the ‘inspect’ module and call its stack() method to get access to the call stack, for example, to get the name of the current function:

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import inspect

fn_name = inspect.stack()[0][3]
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The first index indicates the stack position, so to get the name of the parent calling function use:

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import inspect

fn_name = inspect.stack()[1][3]
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or to define a function that returns the name of the function from which it was called:

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import inspect

def get_current_function():
return inspect.stack()[1][3]
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Introspection is one of the really cool features of modern software programming languages!