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Lester Jack
Lester Jack

Reputation: 199

Python function introspection: what members of a class passed as argument are mentioned inside it?

Say that I have a function like the following:

def eggs(a,b,c):
    if c.foo:
        return a + b.bar
    else:
        return c.spam

I'd like to have a higher order function capable of introspecting the function passed and retrieve what members of an argument are mentioned inside the code via the dot syntax, with the following behavior:

>>> member_inspector(eggs, 'c')
('foo','spam')

>>> member_inspector(eggs, 'b')
('bar')

>>> member_inspector(eggs, 'a')
()

Can this be done? How?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 70

Answers (1)

Alex Hall
Alex Hall

Reputation: 36013

Here's a basic version:

import inspect
from textwrap import dedent
import ast

def member_inspector(f, var):
    source = dedent(inspect.getsource(f))
    module = ast.parse(source)
    func = module.body[0]
    result = []
    for stmt in func.body:
        for node in ast.walk(stmt):
            if (isinstance(node, ast.Attribute) and
                    isinstance(node.value, ast.Name) and
                    node.value.id == var):
                result.append(node.attr)
    return result

Upvotes: 5

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