How to query a function and get a list of expected parameters?

[Matthew Wilson]

I'm writing a function that accepts a function as an argument, and I
want to know to all the parameters that this function expects. How can
I find this out in my program, not by reading the source?

For example, I would want to know for the function below that I have to
pass in two things:

def f(x1, x2): return x1 * x2

It would be nice to get the names also.

All help is welcome.

TIA

Matt

 

[Nick Vatamaniuc]

Matt,

In [26]: inspect.getargspec(f)
Out[26]: (['x1', 'x2'], None, None, None)

For more see the inspect module.

-Nick Vatamaniuc

 

[George Sakkis]

I'm writing a function that accepts a function as an argument, and I
want to know to all the parameters that this function expects. How can
I find this out in my program, not by reading the source?

For example, I would want to know for the function below that I have to
pass in two things:

def f(x1, x2): return x1 * x2

It would be nice to get the names also.

All help is welcome.

TIA

Matt

Check out the inspect module
(http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/inspect-classes-functions.html):(['x1', 'x2'], None, None, None)

George