>> I am trying to get some information about a function >> before (and without) calling it.
> how about def pdict(f): parameter_defaults = {} defaults = f.func_defaults defaultcount = len(defaults) argcount = f.func_code.co_argcount for i in xrange(f.func_code.co_argcount): name = f.func_code.co_varnames[i] value = None if i >= argcount - defaultcount: value = defaults[i - (argcount - defaultcount)] parameter_defaults[name] = value return parameter_defaults > No need for the string parameters. > > Tim That's it! I saw the func_defaults, but could not see how to make them match up with the co_varnames. I forgot that keyword args must follow the positional args (duh). I think this is going to work perfectly. Thanks to all for the suggestions! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list