get_caller_name¶
-
lsst.utils.
get_caller_name
(skip=2)¶ 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: - skip :
int
How many levels of stack to skip while getting caller name; 1 means “who calls me”, 2 means “who calls my caller”, etc.
Returns: - name :
str
Name of the caller as a string in the form
module.class.method
. An empty string is returned ifskip
exceeds the stack height.
Notes
Adapted from from http://stackoverflow.com/a/9812105 by adding support to get the class from
parentframe.f_locals['cls']
- skip :