How to get a function name as a string in Python?

Every function has a property called __name__ attached to it. We can access this property and get the name of a function. For example:

def some_func():
    return 0
print some_func.__name__

This will give us the output:

some_func

Rajendra Dharmkar

Updated on 30-Sep-2019 06:59:29

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