Greetings,

Utilizing the inspect module and getcmdargspec on constructors I've
been able to dynamically create a GUI that connects to multiple
providers, and can act upon the objects. What I'm trying to accomplish
is a completely introspective product - that is, upgrade the libcloud
version behind the scenes and the GUI suddenly has more options and
providers.

I've hit a snag with create_node and deploy_node as defined in
libcloud.compute.drivers.* and libcloud.compute.base.NodeDriver.
Because these functions are defined with **kwargs rather than specific
arguments I cannot continue using getcmdargspec to in part generate a
GUI.

One solution that I think is possible, although is undeniably a hack,
is to utilize inspect.getdoc(), and then parse valid options with
pydoc.

I'm asking 2 questions to the dev list:

1) Am I missing something? Is there a helper function in some location
to get a valid list of arguments for create_node and deploy_node that
includes provider specific entries?
2) Can you think of a better way then parsing documentation to
generate an equivalent of getcmdargspec?

All the best,
Rob

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