This recipe shows how to find the arity of a given Python function. The arity of a function is the number of arguments the function takes. The recipe uses the inspect module of Python.
More details and sample output (including some limitations) here:
https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2017/01/finding-arity-of-python-function.html
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function_arity.py
Purpose: To find the arity of a Python function.
Author: Vasudev Ram
Copyright 2017 Vasudev Ram
Web site: https://vasudevram.github.io
Blog: https://jugad2.blogspot.com
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'''
import inspect
# Define a few functions with increasing arity:
def f0():
pass
def f1(a1):
pass
def f2(a1, a2):
pass
def f3(a1, a2, a3):
pass
def f4(a1, a2, a3, a4):
pass
def main():
# Define a few non-function objects:
int1 = 0
float1 = 0.0
str1 = ''
tup1 = ()
lis1 = []
# Test the function arity-finding code with both the functions
# and the non-function objects:
for o in (f0, f1, f2, f3, f4, int1, float1, str1, tup1, lis1):
if not inspect.isfunction(o):
print repr(o), 'is not a function'
continue
n_args = len(inspect.getargspec(o)[0])
if n_args == 0:
num_suffix = '(no) args'
elif n_args == 1:
num_suffix = 'arg'
else:
num_suffix = 'args'
print o.__name__, 'is a function that takes', \
n_args, num_suffix
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
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More details and sample output (including some limitations) here:
https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2017/01/finding-arity-of-python-function.html
