get_caller_name¶
- lsst.utils.introspection.get_caller_name(stacklevel: int = 2) str ¶
Get the name of the caller method.
Any item that cannot be determined (or is not relevant, e.g. a free function has no class) is silently omitted, along with an associated separator.
- Parameters:
- stacklevel
int
How many levels of stack to skip while getting caller name; 1 means “who calls me”, 2 means “who calls my caller”, etc.
- stacklevel
- Returns:
- name
str
Name of the caller as a string in the form
module.class.method
. An empty string is returned ifstacklevel
exceeds the stack height.
- name
Notes
Adapted from http://stackoverflow.com/a/9812105 by adding support to get the class from
parentframe.f_locals['cls']