Thanks Diez and Peter, Just what I was looking for. In "Library Reference" heading
3.11.1 Types and members I found the info about the method you described. I also made a little function to print out not just the name of the function but also the parameter list. Here it is # fname.py import sys, string def cap(s, n): print string.replace("".join([sys._getframe().f_code.co_name, \ repr(sys._getframe().f_code.co_varnames)]), "\'", "") cap('Hello', 'Bob') Running this yields the result cap(s, n) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list