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Recipe 576925: Caller and Callee

A recipe to find out which function is the caller of the current function.

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import inspect

def callee():
    return inspect.getouterframes(inspect.currentframe())[1][1:4]

def caller():
    return inspect.getouterframes(inspect.currentframe())[2][1:4]

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Usage:

def anyfunction():
    print "Function %s called from function %s" % (callee(), caller())

def anotherfunction():
    anyfunction()

anotherfunction()

Output:

Function ('/tmp/caller.py', 11, 'anyfunction') called from function ('/tmp/caller.py', 14, 'anotherfunction')

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