Currentframe
Currentframe is a function in Python’s standard library (the inspect module) that returns the frame object for the caller’s stack frame. It is a debugging and introspection aid, used to inspect the local and global context of the code that is currently executing. The function returns a frame object of type types.FrameType or None if no frame is accessible.
A frame object exposes several attributes that describe the execution context. Key attributes include f_globals (the
Usage considerations are important. While powerful, using currentframe can keep references to large local variables alive,
In CPython, inspect.currentframe is typically implemented as a safe wrapper around sys._getframe(1), returning the caller’s frame.