mike bayer added the comment: we basically need to be able to get the argument signature for anything that passes callable(); function, method, class, object with __call__. So this is the logic we use:
import inspect def get_callable_argspec(fn): if inspect.isfunction(fn) or inspect.ismethod(fn): inspectable = fn elif inspect.isclass(fn): inspectable = fn.__init__ elif hasattr(fn, '__call__'): inspectable = fn.__call__ else: inspectable = fn try: return inspect.getargspec(inspectable) except TypeError: raise def callable1(self, x, y): pass class SomeClass(object): def __init__(self, x, y): pass def callable2(self, x, y): pass def __call__(self, x, y): pass callable3 = SomeClass callable4 = SomeClass(2, 3) for callable_ in (callable1, SomeClass(1, 2).callable2, callable3, callable4): assert callable(callable_) # the interpreter can tell me this # how can it reliably tell me this? assert get_callable_argspec(callable_) == (["self", "x", "y"], None, None, None) If you pass a builtin like datetime.datetime.today to it, isfunction()/ismethod()/isclass() return false, but it does have a __call__(). I'm working around this now by just refusing to act on anything that is types.BuiltinMethodType or types.BuiltinFunctionType. Any guidance on what the proper way is to get the argument signature for any object that returns True for callable() would be very helpful (py2.6-3.x compatible). I'm not sure if there's a stdlib call for this. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20828> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com