SV: Python Productivity over C++

[Stefan Franke]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 23:28:39 GMT, hzhu at mars.localdomain (Huaiyu Zhu) wrote:

>>Ah, good point - try this variant - I switched to getattr() which
>>takes the inheritance into account (you could also write your own
>>recursive function that used Instance.__bases__ to look in the
>>superclasses).

Some thoughts:

Using callable(x) instead of "type(x) is types.Function/MethodType" would
make this still a bit more generic. 

In its ZPublisher.mapply module, Zope uses Python's introspection features
to figure out and match function signatures.

Stefan