Get __name__ of calling function’s module in Python

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Check out the inspect module:

inspect.stack() will return the stack information.

Inside a function, inspect.stack()[1] will return your caller’s stack. From there, you can get more information about the caller’s function name, module, etc.

See the docs for details:

http://docs.python.org/library/inspect.html

Also, Doug Hellmann has a nice writeup of the inspect module in his PyMOTW series:

http://pymotw.com/2/inspect/index.html#module-inspect

EDIT: Here’s some code which does what you want, I think:

import inspect 

def info(msg):
    frm = inspect.stack()[1]
    mod = inspect.getmodule(frm[0])
    print '[%s] %s' % (mod.__name__, msg)

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