Take a look at the inspect module – this will do the inspection of the various code object properties for you. >>> inspect.getfullargspec(a_method) ([‘arg1’, ‘arg2’], None, None, None) The other results are the name of the *args and **kwargs variables, and the defaults provided. ie. >>> def foo(a, b, c=4, *arglist, **keywords): pass >>> inspect.getfullargspec(foo) … Read more
inspect.getframeinfo and other related functions in inspect can help: >>> import inspect >>> def f1(): f2() … >>> def f2(): … curframe = inspect.currentframe() … calframe = inspect.getouterframes(curframe, 2) … print(‘caller name:’, calframe[1][3]) … >>> f1() caller name: f1 this introspection is intended to help debugging and development; it’s not advisable to rely on it … Read more
Have you tried the __name__ attribute of the class? ie type(x).__name__ will give you the name of the class, which I think is what you want. >>> import itertools >>> x = itertools.count(0) >>> type(x).__name__ ‘count’ If you’re still using Python 2, note that the above method works with new-style classes only (in Python 3+ … Read more
You want vars() mixed with pprint(): from pprint import pprint pprint(vars(your_object))
It signifies the end of the positional only parameters, parameters you cannot use as keyword parameters. Before Python 3.8, such parameters could only be specified in the C API. It means the key argument to __contains__ can only be passed in by position (range(5).__contains__(3)), not as a keyword argument (range(5).__contains__(key=3)), something you can do with … Read more