getting argument names from a function
Mike C. Fletcher
mcfletch at home.com
Wed Jul 11 02:10:00 EDT 2001
In case anyone else is doing help-function kind of stuff, also note the
standard pydoc module, which provides a "help" function that extracts all
this info and formats it into text or HTML for you. Can be used
interactively or to generate static documentation.
Enjoy,
Mike
PS: for an example of static documents:
http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/documentation/pydoc/OpenGLContext.html
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[mailto:python-list-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Travis Oliphant
Sent: July 10, 2001 19:00
To: python-list at python.org
Subject: Re: getting argument names from a function
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In Python 2.1 the inspect module provides easy access to the introspection
facilities of Python.
>> apply(inspect.formatargspec, inspect.getargspec(aFunction))
will return
aFunction(arg1, arg2)
I just found this facility myself and am using it to add a simple help
command to SciPy (www.scipy.org)
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