Issue #25486: Resurrect inspect.getargspec in 3.6. Backout a565aad5d6e1.

The decision is that we shouldn't remove popular APIs (however long they
are depreacted) from Python 3, while 2.7 is still around and supported.

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/inspect.py b/Lib/inspect.py
index 7615e52..74f3b3c 100644
--- a/Lib/inspect.py
+++ b/Lib/inspect.py
@@ -1004,6 +1004,31 @@ def _getfullargs(co):
         varkw = co.co_varnames[nargs]
     return args, varargs, kwonlyargs, varkw
 
+
+ArgSpec = namedtuple('ArgSpec', 'args varargs keywords defaults')
+
+def getargspec(func):
+    """Get the names and default values of a function's arguments.
+
+    A tuple of four things is returned: (args, varargs, keywords, defaults).
+    'args' is a list of the argument names, including keyword-only argument names.
+    'varargs' and 'keywords' are the names of the * and ** arguments or None.
+    'defaults' is an n-tuple of the default values of the last n arguments.
+
+    Use the getfullargspec() API for Python 3 code, as annotations
+    and keyword arguments are supported. getargspec() will raise ValueError
+    if the func has either annotations or keyword arguments.
+    """
+    warnings.warn("inspect.getargspec() is deprecated, "
+                  "use inspect.signature() instead", DeprecationWarning,
+                  stacklevel=2)
+    args, varargs, varkw, defaults, kwonlyargs, kwonlydefaults, ann = \
+        getfullargspec(func)
+    if kwonlyargs or ann:
+        raise ValueError("Function has keyword-only arguments or annotations"
+                         ", use getfullargspec() API which can support them")
+    return ArgSpec(args, varargs, varkw, defaults)
+
 FullArgSpec = namedtuple('FullArgSpec',
     'args, varargs, varkw, defaults, kwonlyargs, kwonlydefaults, annotations')