How to get function name as a string in Python

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to get the function name as a string in Python with the help of an example.

Consider, we have a following function:

def add(a, b):
   return a + b

Now, we need to the get the above function name.

Using __name__ property

In python, every function has an underscore __name__ property by using that we can get the function name as a string.

Here is an example, that gets the add function name as a string format.

def add(a, b):
   return a + b

print(add.__name__)

Output:

add