Any way to get information from fun objects about their parameters?

[Gonçalo Rodrigues]

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 00:49:57 GMT, Kenneth McDonald
<kmmcdonald at wisc.edu> wrote:

>For autodocumentation purposes, I'd like to be able to load a module
>and then find out the following information about functions and
>methods defined within it:
>
>1) Parameter names and order
>2) Default value, if any, associated with each parameter
>3) If the *param or **param conventions are used in the
>parameter list.
>
>Reading documentation about function objects, the only
>relevant information I can extract is a tuple representing
>default param values, which is not useful to me.
>
>I know I could probably do this by parsing the module, but
>I would strongly prefer a simpler way. I'd have thought that,
>like docstrings and many other properties, the parameter info
>would also be stored with function objects.
>

Check out the inspect module. In particular the getargspec function.

With my best regards,
G. Rodrigues