Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> flam...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I am wondering if it's possible to get the return value of a method
>> *without* calling it using introspection?
>
> Nope. All that's possible to see if there is a implicit or explicit return
> through dis.disassemble - if you find "LOAD_CONST None" before any
> return-statement, you know that you don't anything else.
Gosh, this is barely intelligible...
What I wanted to say is that you can check if a function only returns
constant values, which most of the time will be implicit "return None"
statements, as in this:
def foo():
a = 10
dis.disassemble(foo.func_code)
...
2 0 LOAD_CONST 0 (None)
3 RETURN_VALUE
Diez
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