David wrote: > Il Wed, 13 Sep 2006 07:34:45 +0100, Steve Holden ha scritto: > > >>What do you need this name for, just as a materr of interest? There are >>ways of manipulating the stack frames, but they'll be slow and possibly >>unreliable. > > I am writing a big (for me) program and it would be helpful to have a dummy > function like this: > > def function_A_subfunction_B(self, ....) > dummy() > > that display a standard message like this: > > "Dummy: 'function_A_subfunction_B' in module 'module' is not defined yet" > One way would be to have dummy() raise an exception, which it catches. Then use the traceback information to provide the information you want.
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