On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 1:06 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> wrote:
> 2013/2/8 Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm wondering about the purpose of this code in
>> inspect.Signature.from_function():
>>
>> """
>> if not isinstance(func, types.FunctionType):
>> raise TypeError('{!r} is not a Python function'.format(func))
>> """
>>
>> Is there any reason why this method would have to explicitly check the type
>> of its argument? Why can't it just accept any object that quacks like a
>> function?
>
> The signature() function checks for types.FunctionType in order to
> call Signature.from_function(). How would you reimplement that?
I assumed Stefan was wanting to use Signature.from_function() to set
__signature__ (as soon as you do that, inspect.signature will do the
right thing).
At the moment, you would have to build the signature by hand (which
was the original intent of the design), but we simply didn't think
about projects like Cython that might be providing the full
types.FunctionType API without being ordinary function instances.
Cheers,
Nick.
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Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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