inspect: Implement a very basic signature function. #1043
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This implements a very basic
inspect.signature()
function.At the moment it returns only a simple
Signature
instance with aparameters
attribute that holds anOrderedDict
whose length matches the arity of the input function (the number of arguments it takes).So, the following code works and is compatible with CPython:
That should print
3
.I tested this on unix 64-bit, unix nanbox (32-bit), webassembly (32-bit) and a 32-bit bare-metal target.
The main aim here is to support PyScript which is currently using a very unreliable hack to work out if a Python function takes arguments or not: https://github.com/pyscript/pyscript/blob/main/core/src/stdlib/pyscript/events.py#L96-L126