How do I get the name of a function or method from within a Python function or method?

Question

I feel like I should know this, but I haven\'t been able to figure it out...

I want to get the name of a method--which happens to be an integration test--from inside

Answer 1

This decorator makes the name of the method available inside the function by passing it as a keyword argument.

from functools import wraps
def pass_func_name(func):
    "Name of decorated function will be passed as keyword arg _func_name"
    @wraps(func)
    def _pass_name(*args, **kwds):
        kwds['_func_name'] = func.func_name
        return func(*args, **kwds)
    return _pass_name

You would use it this way:

@pass_func_name
def sum(a, b, _func_name):
    print "running function %s" % _func_name
    return a + b

print sum(2, 4)

But maybe you'd want to write what you want directly inside the decorator itself. Then the code is an example of a way to get the function name in a decorator. If you give more details about what you want to do in the function, that requires the name, maybe I can suggest something else.