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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2007-09-12 19:04:21 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2007-09-12 19:04:21 (GMT)
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Document inspect.getfullargspec(). Fixes #1121.
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@@ -376,10 +376,31 @@ Classes and functions
Get the names and default values of a function's arguments. A tuple of four
things is returned: ``(args, varargs, varkw, defaults)``. *args* is a list of
- the argument names (it may contain nested lists). *varargs* and *varkw* are the
- names of the ``*`` and ``**`` arguments or ``None``. *defaults* is a tuple of
- default argument values or None if there are no default arguments; if this tuple
- has *n* elements, they correspond to the last *n* elements listed in *args*.
+ the argument names. *varargs* and *varkw* are the names of the ``*`` and
+ ``**`` arguments or ``None``. *defaults* is a tuple of default argument
+ values or None if there are no default arguments; if this tuple has *n*
+ elements, they correspond to the last *n* elements listed in *args*.
+
+ .. deprecated:: 3.0
+ Use :func:`getfullargspec` instead, which provides information about
+ keyword-only arguments.
+
+
+.. function:: getfullargspec(func)
+
+ Get the names and default values of a function's arguments. A tuple of seven
+ things is returned:
+
+ ``(args, varargs, varkw, defaults, kwonlyargs, kwonlydefaults, annotations)``
+
+ *args* is a list of the argument names. *varargs* and *varkw* are the names
+ of the ``*`` and ``**`` arguments or ``None``. *defaults* is an n-tuple of
+ the default values of the last n arguments. *kwonlyargs* is a list of
+ keyword-only argument names. *kwonlydefaults* is a dictionary mapping names
+ from kwonlyargs to defaults. *annotations* is a dictionary mapping argument
+ names to annotations.
+
+ The first four items in the tuple correspond to :func:`getargspec`.
.. function:: getargvalues(frame)