Finding Function Args?

[Mike C. Fletcher]

Check the standard module inspect, particularly;

 >>> import inspect
 >>> import cgi
 >>> inspect.getargspec( cgi.escape )
(['s', 'quote'], None, None, (None,))


HTH,
Mike

Chris S. wrote:

> Is there a way to dynamically find out how many arguments a function 
> requires? I thought this would be listed somewhere with dir() but I 
> can't find anything. Any help is appreciated.

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