def getargs(obj):
"""Get the names and default values of a function's arguments"""
if inspect.isfunction(obj) or inspect.isbuiltin(obj):
func_obj = obj
elif inspect.ismethod(obj):
func_obj = get_meth_func(obj)
elif inspect.isclass(obj) and hasattr(obj, '__init__'):
func_obj = getattr(obj, '__init__')
else:
return []
if not hasattr(func_obj, 'func_code'):
# Builtin: try to extract info from doc
args = getargsfromdoc(func_obj)
if args is not None:
return args
else:
# Example: PyQt4
return getargsfromdoc(obj)
args, _, _ = inspect.getargs(func_obj.func_code)
if not args:
return getargsfromdoc(obj)
# Supporting tuple arguments in def statement:
for i_arg, arg in enumerate(args):
if isinstance(arg, list):
args[i_arg] = "(%s)" % ", ".join(arg)
defaults = get_func_defaults(func_obj)
if defaults is not None:
for index, default in enumerate(defaults):
args[index+len(args)-len(defaults)] += '='+repr(default)
if inspect.isclass(obj) or inspect.ismethod(obj):
if len(args) == 1:
return None
if 'self' in args:
args.remove('self')
return args
def getdoc(obj):
"""
Return text documentation from an object. This comes in a form of
dictionary with four keys:
name:
The name of the inspected object
argspec:
It's argspec
note:
A phrase describing the type of object (function or method) we are
inspecting, and the module it belongs to.
docstring:
It's docstring
"""
docstring = inspect.getdoc(obj) or inspect.getcomments(obj) or ''
# Most of the time doc will only contain ascii characters, but there are
# some docstrings that contain non-ascii characters. Not all source files
# declare their encoding in the first line, so querying for that might not
# yield anything, either. So assume the most commonly used
# multi-byte file encoding (which also covers ascii).
try:
docstring = to_text_string(docstring)
except:
pass
# Doc dict keys
doc = {'name': '',
'argspec': '',
'note': '',
'docstring': docstring}
if callable(obj):
try:
name = obj.__name__
except AttributeError:
doc['docstring'] = docstring
return doc
if inspect.ismethod(obj):
imclass = get_meth_class(obj)
if get_meth_class_inst(obj) is not None:
doc['note'] = 'Method of %s instance' \
% get_meth_class_inst(obj).__class__.__name__
else:
doc['note'] = 'Unbound %s method' % imclass.__name__
obj = get_meth_func(obj)
elif hasattr(obj, '__module__'):
doc['note'] = 'Function of %s module' % obj.__module__
else:
doc['note'] = 'Function'
doc['name'] = obj.__name__
if inspect.isfunction(obj):
args, varargs, varkw, defaults = inspect.getargspec(obj)
doc['argspec'] = inspect.formatargspec(args, varargs, varkw,
defaults,
formatvalue=lambda o:'='+repr(o))
if name == '<lambda>':
doc['name'] = name + ' lambda '
doc['argspec'] = doc['argspec'][1:-1] # remove parentheses
else:
argspec = getargspecfromtext(doc['docstring'])
if argspec:
doc['argspec'] = argspec
# Many scipy and numpy docstrings begin with a function
# signature on the first line. This ends up begin redundant
# when we are using title and argspec to create the
# rich text "Definition:" field. We'll carefully remove this
# redundancy but only under a strict set of conditions:
# Remove the starting charaters of the 'doc' portion *iff*
# the non-whitespace characters on the first line
# match *exactly* the combined function title
# and argspec we determined above.
signature = doc['name'] + doc['argspec']
docstring_blocks = doc['docstring'].split("\n\n")
first_block = docstring_blocks[0].strip()
if first_block == signature:
doc['docstring'] = doc['docstring'].replace(
signature, '', 1).lstrip()
else:
doc['argspec'] = '(...)'
# Remove self from argspec
argspec = doc['argspec']
doc['argspec'] = argspec.replace('(self)', '()').replace('(self, ', '(')
return doc