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Comment at: lldb/include/lldb/Interpreter/ScriptInterpreter.h:469
+  
+  virtual int GetNumArgumentsForCallable(const char *callable_name) { 
+    return -1;
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labath wrote:
> In light of varargs functions (`*args, **kwargs`), which are fairly popular 
> in python, the concept of "number of arguments of a callable" does not seem 
> that well defined. The current implementation seems to return the number of 
> fixed arguments, which might be fine, but I think this behavior should be 
> documented. Also, it would be good to modernize this function signature -- 
> have it take a StringRef, and return a `Expected<unsigned (?)>` -- ongoing 
> work by @lawrence_danna will make it possible to return errors from the 
> python interpreter, and this will make it possible to display those, instead 
> of just guessing that this is because the callable was not found (it could in 
> fact be because the named thing is not a callable, of because resolving the 
> name produced an exception, ...).
I just took a look at PythonCallable::GetNumArguments() and it's horribly 
broken.  

It doesn't even work for the simplest test case I could think of.

```  
auto builtins = PythonModule::Import("builtins");
ASSERT_THAT_EXPECTED(builtins, llvm::Succeeded());
auto hex = As<PythonCallable>(builtins.get().GetAttribute("hex"));
ASSERT_THAT_EXPECTED(hex, llvm::Succeeded());  
EXPECT_EQ(hex.get().GetNumArguments().count, 1u);
```

we should really re-write it to use inspect.signature.


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