python - is there a way to track the number of times a function is called?

Question

So i'm trying to make a function that keeps track how many times a method is called. for example:

a = [1,2,3,4]
a.pop()

i want to know how many times a.pop() was called so far so for this example, i would get 1. Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

This doesn't work for builtin functions, but an interesting approach would be:

def myfunction():
    myfunction.counter += 1
myfunction.counter = 0

You're giving the function an attribute, so every call that attribute is updated. No global variables needed.

Built-ins are read-only. They cannot be modified.