Directly calling python's function arguments dispatcher

[Pascal Chambon]

Le 12/12/2010 23:41, Peter Otten a écrit :
> Pascal Chambon wrote:
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>> I've encountered several times, when dealing with adaptation of function
>> signatures, the need for explicitly resolving complex argument sets into
>> a simple variable mapping. Explanations.
>>
>>
>> Consider that function:
>>
>> def foo(a1, a2, *args, **kwargs):
>>       pass
>>
>> calling foo(1, a2=2, a3=3)
>>
>> will map these arguments to local variables like these:
>> {
>> 'a1': 1,
>> 'a2': 2,
>> 'args': tuple(),
>> 'kwarg's: {'a3': 3}
>> }
>>
>> That's a quite complex resolution mechanism, which must handle
>> positional and keyword arguments, and deal with both collision and
>> missing argument cases.
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>> Is that routine exposed to python, somewhere ? Does anybody know a
>> working implementation here or there ?
>>      
> http://docs.python.org/library/inspect.html#inspect.getcallargs
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Too sweeeeeeeeeet  \o/

Thanks a lot,
regards,
Pakal