Steven Bethard wrote:
Of course, even with the unpack list, you still have to know what kind
of arguments the function calls your block with. And because these
only appear within the code, e.g.
block(openfile)
you can't rely on easily accessible things like the function's
signature.
You can't rely on a function's signature alone to tell
you much in any case. A distressingly large number of
functions found in third-party extension modules have
a help() string that just says something like
fooble(arg,...)
There's really no substitute for a good docstring!
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