[FIXED] Equivalent of __func__ (from C) in Python

Issue

I want to create some kind of debugging output for python and want to pass the functionname to another function for output.

The only reasonable way I found to do so was:

def foobar():
  print 'hello world'

  print foobar.__name__

is there something that does the same thing for the current function to improve copy and pasting of that line?

like the C equivalent printf("%s", __func__).

Solution

sys._getframe can do that:

import sys

def foobar():
    print sys._getframe().f_code.co_name

Answered By - David Robinson