[Tutor] Accessing the name of a Function

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Wed Dec 13 11:54:56 CET 2006


Carroll, Barry wrote:
> Andreas:
> 
> You're right, that is kind of messy and somewhat limited.  In the
> present case, however, it is the function's defined name that I want, so
> this would work okay.  
> 
> I'm guessing that there is a way to determine the number and names of
> the arguments to the function as well.  I'll go look at the sys module
> and see what I can find.  

Look at the inspect module, specifically getargspec() and getargvalues().

Kent



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