From: Joey Gibson <joey@...>
Date: 2003-01-16T04:21:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Doc Strings?

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 03:52:44 +0900, Chad Fowler <chadfowler@chadfowler.com>
wrote:

||| How do you find out where a method is called from?  

There's the "caller" method that returns a stack list.

||| I used to do this in Java 
||| through some nasty stack trace hacks (throw an exception and 
||| capture/parse the stack trace string).  

So have I; it's pretty nasty.

||| I'm not sure how useful any of this is (never used the doc string 
||| concept, personally), but now I want to know how to do it.  Hopefully 
||| I'm just forgetting something obvious.

I generally have used __DOC__ when I'm in an interactive Python session and
I can't remember what a class/method does.

Joey


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