"""
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, December 2004
Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar <sam@hocevar.net>
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
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"""
import inspect
def caller_info(skip=2):
"""Get the name of a caller in the format module.class.method.
Copied from: https://gist.github.com/techtonik/2151727
:arguments:
- skip (integer): Specifies how many levels of stack
to skip while getting caller name.
skip=1 means "who calls me",
skip=2 "who calls my caller" etc.
:returns:
- package (string): caller package.
- module (string): caller module.
- klass (string): caller classname if one otherwise None.
- caller (string): caller function or method (if a class exist).
- line (int): the line of the call.
- An empty string is returned if skipped levels exceed stack height.
"""
stack = inspect.stack()
start = 0 + skip
if len(stack) < start + 1:
return ''
parentframe = stack[start][0]
# module and packagename.
module_info = inspect.getmodule(parentframe)
if module_info:
mod = module_info.__name__.split('.')
package = mod[0]
module = mod[1]
# class name.
klass = None
if 'self' in parentframe.f_locals:
klass = parentframe.f_locals['self'].__class__.__name__
# method or function name.
caller = None
if parentframe.f_code.co_name != '<module>': # top level usually
caller = parentframe.f_code.co_name
# call line.
line = parentframe.f_lineno
# Remove reference to frame
# See: https://docs.python.org/3/library/inspect.html#the-interpreter-stack
del parentframe
return package, module, klass, caller, line