On Friday 24 September 2010, it occurred to Geoff Bache to exclaim: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to examine some things in my stack. The information I get > out of inspect.stack() gives file names and I would like to convert > them to module names. I naturally assumes inspect.getmodulename would > fix this for me. > > Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to do that in some cases. Consider the > following code:
It does behave as documented: it does not find package names, or investigate sys.modules > ## file 'inspect_test' rename this file to "inspect_test.py", and the filename will make sense to inspect.getmodulename, which should *then* return "inspect_test" instead of None. > > #!/usr/bin/env python > > import logging, inspect > > print inspect.getmodulename(logging.__file__), > inspect.getmodulename(__file__) > > I hoped that this would print > logging __main__ > > or at least > logging inspect_test > > but instead it prints > __init__ None > > which isn't very helpful, although it could technically be considered > correct (I can go to the 'logging' directory and type "import > __init__" but nobody ever does) > > I guess I was hoping to get the names of the modules as they appear in > sys.modules. Maybe there is some other way to do that? I can naturally > write my own method to do this but wondered if I'm missing something > here. Not that I know of. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
