On 2012-06-14, at 1:51 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 6/14/2012 6:00 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
>> > Just a thought: Do we want to include the docstring? A function's
>> > docstring is often intimately tied to its signature. (Or at least, a
>> > lot of us try to write docstrings that effectively describe the
>> > function's signature)
>>
>> No, combining the signature with other details like the name and
>> docstring is the task of higher level interfaces like pydoc.
>
> Idle tooltips are potentially two lines: the signature and the first line of
> the docstring. (Some builtins need a better first line, but thats another
> issue.)
We've decided to make Signature to represent only
call-signature-part of objects. Docstring, along with
object's name and docstring isn't part of it.
In any way, it's easy to get all information you need:
def introspect_function(func):
sig = signature(func)
return (func.__name__, func.__doc__, str(sig))
-
Yury
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