Get the name of a decorated function?

In addition to functools.wraps, you can check out the decorator module which was designed to help with this problem.

You may want to use wraps from functools. See the example

>>> from functools import wraps
>>> def my_decorator(f):
...     @wraps(f)
...     def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
...         print('Calling decorated function')
...         return f(*args, **kwargs)
...     return wrapper
...
>>> @my_decorator
... def example():
...     """Docstring"""
...     print('Called example function')
...
>>> example()
Calling decorated function
Called example function
>>> example.__name__
'example'
>>> example.__doc__
'Docstring'

Use http://docs.python.org/library/functools.html#functools.wraps

functools.wraps is not needed! Just use func.__name__

import time

def timeit(func):
    def timed(*args, **kwargs):
        ts = time.time()
        result = func(*args, **kwargs)
        te = time.time()
        print('Function', func.__name__, 'time:', round((te -ts)*1000,1), 'ms')
        print()
        return result
    return timed

@timeit
def math_harder():
    [x**(x%17)^x%17 for x in range(1,5555)]
math_harder()

@timeit
def sleeper_agent():
    time.sleep(1)
sleeper_agent()

Outputs:

Function math_harder time: 8.4 ms
Function sleeper_agent time: 1003.7 ms