Hi All, thanks for the comments and yes I am a tad confused and a little
out of my comfort zone with what I am trying to achieve here. Is this below
any better way (or even worse?) of trying to achieve this. Though this
doesn't actually achieve what I want it to, it may nonetheless highlight
the concept in principle?
def funcA(runfromB=False):
if runfromB is False:"running from funcA" # print only if running from
funcA
print "running from funcA or funcB" #print when running from either
function
if runfromB is True: "running from funcB" # print only when running
from funcB
def funcB(runfromB):
funcA(runfromB=runfromB)
funcB(runfromB=True)
On 6 March 2014 20:37, Jerry Hill <malaclyp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Jignesh Sutar <jsu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi I'm trying to exclude a certain line of code if the function is
> called by
> > another function, see illustration below:
>
> As other have said, this is not often a good idea. That said, it is
> possible to inspect the call stack to see what called a particular
> function, like this (python 3.3):
>
> iimport inspect
>
> def funcA():
> caller = inspect.stack()[1][3]
> print('funcA was called by ' + caller)
> if caller == '<module>':
> print("running from funcA")# print only if running from funcA
> if caller in ('<module>', 'funcB'):
> print("running from funcA or funcB") # print when running from
> either function
> if caller == 'funcB':
> print("running from funcB") # print only when running from funcB
>
> def funcB():
> funcA()
>
> print('----- Calling funcA() directly -----')
> funcA()
> print('----- Calling funcB() -----')
> funcB()
>
> Output:
>
> >>>
> ----- Calling funcA() directly -----
> funcA was called by <module>
> running from funcA
> running from funcA or funcB
> ----- Calling funcB() -----
> funcA was called by funcB
> running from funcA or funcB
> running from funcB
> >>>
>
>
> --
> Jerry
>
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