Can a line of Python code know its indentation nesting level?

Question

From something like this:

print(get_indentation_level())

    print(get_indentation_level())

        print(get_indentation_level())

I would li

Answer 1

To solve the ”real” problem that lead to your question you could implement a contextmanager which keeps track of the indention level and make the with block structure in the code correspond to the indentation levels of the output. This way the code indentation still reflects the output indentation without coupling both too much. It is still possible to refactor the code into different functions and have other indentations based on code structure not messing with the output indentation.

#!/usr/bin/env python
# coding: utf8
from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function


class IndentedPrinter(object):

    def __init__(self, level=0, indent_with='  '):
        self.level = level
        self.indent_with = indent_with

    def __enter__(self):
        self.level += 1
        return self

    def __exit__(self, *_args):
        self.level -= 1

    def print(self, arg='', *args, **kwargs):
        print(self.indent_with * self.level + str(arg), *args, **kwargs)


def main():
    indented = IndentedPrinter()
    indented.print(indented.level)
    with indented:
        indented.print(indented.level)
        with indented:
            indented.print('Hallo', indented.level)
            with indented:
                indented.print(indented.level)
            indented.print('and back one level', indented.level)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Output:

0
  1
    Hallo 2
      3
    and back one level 2