From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-08-03T22:25:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting the 'Sender' or 'Caller' object of a method

2007/8/3, Peter Laurens <peterlaurenspublic@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I am not having much luck in finding out how to get the calling object
> of a method.
>
> Is there an implicit way that a method can get a pointer to the object
> that called it, or do I have to write that explicitly, manually
> including a 'sender' parameter for the method call myself?
>
> I have looked at 'caller' but can only coax a string out of it.

Depends on what you want to do.  If it's for debugging purposes you
can use set_trace_func to keep track of callers or just trace the
whole program execution.

If you need it for your program logic then you should pass the caller
- either as method parameter or set it as an attribute before the
call. Depends on what you do which is more appropriate.

Kind regards

robert