Tim Peters wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi, I've written a top-down recursive decent parser for SPICE circuit > > descriptions. For debugging purposes, I wanted each production ... > > Any clues? >
> It should go much faster to use a function that doesn't crawl the > entire call stack. For example, > > >>> import sys, inspect > >>> def name_of_caller(): > ... return inspect.getframeinfo(sys._getframe(1), context=0)[2] > >>> def f(): > ... print "my name is", name_of_caller() > >>> f() > my name is f > > name_of_caller() takes time independent of the call-stack depth. > > The "context=0" is to avoid wasting time sucking up and packaging > source-code lines you don't want anyway. Cool, thanks. I'll try that. I didn't realize there were other ways of getting it. ms -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
