newbie question - identifying name of method

[mirandacascade]

Does Python provide some sort of mechanism for answering the question:
what method am I in?

Example: assume the file example1.py contains the following code:

def driver():
print 'hello world'
print __name__
print 'the name of this method is %s' % str(???)

The output I'd like to see is:

hello world
example1
driver

and I'd like to be able to see it without hardcoding the string
'driver' in the third print statement. Is there anything I can
substitute for the ??? that answers the question: what method am I in?

 

[Fredrik Lundh]

Does Python provide some sort of mechanism for answering the question:
what method am I in?

Example: assume the file example1.py contains the following code:

def driver():
print 'hello world'
print __name__
print 'the name of this method is %s' % str(???)

The output I'd like to see is:

hello world
example1
driver

and I'd like to be able to see it without hardcoding the string
'driver' in the third print statement. Is there anything I can
substitute for the ??? that answers the question: what method am I in?

replace str(???) with

(sys._getframe().f_code.co_name or "???")

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[Terry Reedy]

Does Python provide some sort of mechanism for answering the question:
what method am I in?

I believe that Python, the language defined in the Ref Manual, does not.
The CPython implementation adds enough introspection into its workings that
you can get at the function code definition name, with the simplest method
being the one given by Fredrik. If you want the names currently bound to
the function object in a particular namespace, you have to do something
else.

Terry J. Reedy