On Mar 21, 3:11 pm, "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "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
Thanks for posting. OK, .__doc__ or .func_doc But still the question remains. I cannot use print .__doc__ OR print .func_doc within the function. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
