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

I've seen a few answers that utilized decorators, though I felt a few were a bit verbose. Here's something I use for logging function names as well as their respective input and output values. I've adapted it here to just print the info rather than creating a log file and adapted it to apply to the OP specific example.

def debug(func=None):
    def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
        try:
            function_name = func.__func__.__qualname__
        except:
            function_name = func.__qualname__
        return func(*args, **kwargs, function_name=function_name)
    return wrapper

@debug
def my_function(**kwargs):
    print(kwargs)

my_function()

Output:

{'function_name': 'my_function'}