"gtb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Greetings, | | Don't know the daily limit for dumb questions so I will ask one or | more. | | In a function I can use the statement n = | sys._getframe().f_code.co_name to get the name of the current | function. Given that I can get the name how can I print the __doc__ | string? I cant use the following, it will tell me to bugger off as the | string has no such attribute. | | def spam(self): | n = sys._getframe().f_code.co_name | print n.__doc__ #Wrong | print __doc__ #No good either | #....
The docstring you are looking for is attached to the *function* object as .__doc__ and .func_doc. Frame.f_code is a *code* object. It has a boilerplate doc string, but not the one you want. As near as I can tell, frames do not keep references to the func object but only the code object, which is all it needs to run the code. I believe tracebacks use co_filename and co_name to find the text of a function. You could try to parse out the doc string from there. Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
