"""This provides a lineno() function to make it easy to grab the line number that we're on. Danny Yoo (dyoo@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu) """ import inspect def lineno(): """Returns the current line number in our program.""" return inspect.currentframe().f_back.f_lineno if __name__ == '__main__': print "hello, this is line number", lineno() print print print "and this is line", lineno()