How to get a function name as a string?

Question

In Python, how do I get a function name as a string, without calling the function?

def my_function():
    pass

print get_function_name_as_string(my_function         


        

Answer 1

You just want to get the name of the function here is a simple code for that. let say you have these functions defined

def function1():
    print "function1"

def function2():
    print "function2"

def function3():
    print "function3"
print function1.__name__

the output will be function1

Now let say you have these functions in a list

a = [function1 , function2 , funciton3]

to get the name of the functions

for i in a:
    print i.__name__

the output will be

function1
function2
function3