Nick Coghlan, 08.02.2013 16:20: > On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 1:06 AM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: >> 2013/2/8 Stefan Behnel: >>> 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?
It should call isfunction() instead of running an explicit type check. > 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). Absolutely. Stefan _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com