James Stroud wrote: > By the way, I already know a million "better" ways to do this, so no > need for the "why would you want to do that?" responses.
why not? (if you really want to know how this works, study the source code for the "getargspec" function in the inspect module. or easier, you can just use that function to fetch the default: def getdefault(function, name): import inspect args, varargs, varkw, defaults = inspect.getargspec(bob) first = len(args) - len(defaults) pos = args.index(name) if pos >= first: return defaults[pos - first] return None # no default print getdefault(bob, "wives") ) </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list