Pascal Chambon wrote:
> I've encountered several times, when dealing with adaptation of function > signatures, the need for explicitly resolving complex argument sets into > a simple variable mapping. Explanations. > > > Consider that function: > > def foo(a1, a2, *args, **kwargs): > pass > > calling foo(1, a2=2, a3=3) > > will map these arguments to local variables like these: > { > 'a1': 1, > 'a2': 2, > 'args': tuple(), > 'kwarg's: {'a3': 3} > } > > That's a quite complex resolution mechanism, which must handle > positional and keyword arguments, and deal with both collision and > missing argument cases. > Is that routine exposed to python, somewhere ? Does anybody know a > working implementation here or there ? http://docs.python.org/library/inspect.html#inspect.getcallargs -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list