# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- """Tools for inspecting Python objects. Uses syntax highlighting for presenting the various information elements. Similar in spirit to the inspect module, but all calls take a name argument to reference the name under which an object is being read. """ # Copyright (c) IPython Development Team. # Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License. __all__ = ['Inspector','InspectColors'] # stdlib modules import ast import inspect from inspect import signature import linecache import warnings import os from textwrap import dedent import types import io as stdlib_io from itertools import zip_longest # IPython's own from IPython.core import page from IPython.lib.pretty import pretty from IPython.testing.skipdoctest import skip_doctest from IPython.utils import PyColorize from IPython.utils import openpy from IPython.utils import py3compat from IPython.utils.dir2 import safe_hasattr from IPython.utils.path import compress_user from IPython.utils.text import indent from IPython.utils.wildcard import list_namespace from IPython.utils.wildcard import typestr2type from IPython.utils.coloransi import TermColors, ColorScheme, ColorSchemeTable from IPython.utils.py3compat import cast_unicode from IPython.utils.colorable import Colorable from IPython.utils.decorators import undoc from pygments import highlight from pygments.lexers import PythonLexer from pygments.formatters import HtmlFormatter def pylight(code): return highlight(code, PythonLexer(), HtmlFormatter(noclasses=True)) # builtin docstrings to ignore _func_call_docstring = types.FunctionType.__call__.__doc__ _object_init_docstring = object.__init__.__doc__ _builtin_type_docstrings = { inspect.getdoc(t) for t in (types.ModuleType, types.MethodType, types.FunctionType, property) } _builtin_func_type = type(all) _builtin_meth_type = type(str.upper) # Bound methods have the same type as builtin functions #**************************************************************************** # Builtin color schemes Colors = TermColors # just a shorthand InspectColors = PyColorize.ANSICodeColors #**************************************************************************** # Auxiliary functions and objects # See the messaging spec for the definition of all these fields. This list # effectively defines the order of display info_fields = ['type_name', 'base_class', 'string_form', 'namespace', 'length', 'file', 'definition', 'docstring', 'source', 'init_definition', 'class_docstring', 'init_docstring', 'call_def', 'call_docstring', # These won't be printed but will be used to determine how to # format the object 'ismagic', 'isalias', 'isclass', 'argspec', 'found', 'name' ] def object_info(**kw): """Make an object info dict with all fields present.""" infodict = dict(zip_longest(info_fields, [None])) infodict.update(kw) return infodict def get_encoding(obj): """Get encoding for python source file defining obj Returns None if obj is not defined in a sourcefile. """ ofile = find_file(obj) # run contents of file through pager starting at line where the object # is defined, as long as the file isn't binary and is actually on the # filesystem. if ofile is None: return None elif ofile.endswith(('.so', '.dll', '.pyd')): return None elif not os.path.isfile(ofile): return None else: # Print only text files, not extension binaries. Note that # getsourcelines returns lineno with 1-offset and page() uses # 0-offset, so we must adjust. with stdlib_io.open(ofile, 'rb') as buffer: # Tweaked to use io.open for Python 2 encoding, lines = openpy.detect_encoding(buffer.readline) return encoding def getdoc(obj): """Stable wrapper around inspect.getdoc. This can't crash because of attribute problems. It also attempts to call a getdoc() method on the given object. This allows objects which provide their docstrings via non-standard mechanisms (like Pyro proxies) to still be inspected by ipython's ? system. """ # Allow objects to offer customized documentation via a getdoc method: try: ds = obj.getdoc() except Exception: pass else: if isinstance(ds, str): return inspect.cleandoc(ds) docstr = inspect.getdoc(obj) encoding = get_encoding(obj) return py3compat.cast_unicode(docstr, encoding=encoding) def getsource(obj, oname=''): """Wrapper around inspect.getsource. This can be modified by other projects to provide customized source extraction. Parameters ---------- obj : object an object whose source code we will attempt to extract oname : str (optional) a name under which the object is known Returns ------- src : unicode or None """ if isinstance(obj, property): sources = [] for attrname in ['fget', 'fset', 'fdel']: fn = getattr(obj, attrname) if fn is not None: encoding = get_encoding(fn) oname_prefix = ('%s.' % oname) if oname else '' sources.append(cast_unicode( ''.join(('# ', oname_prefix, attrname)), encoding=encoding)) if inspect.isfunction(fn): sources.append(dedent(getsource(fn))) else: # Default str/repr only prints function name, # pretty.pretty prints module name too. sources.append(cast_unicode( '%s%s = %s\n' % ( oname_prefix, attrname, pretty(fn)), encoding=encoding)) if sources: return '\n'.join(sources) else: return None else: # Get source for non-property objects. obj = _get_wrapped(obj) try: src = inspect.getsource(obj) except TypeError: # The object itself provided no meaningful source, try looking for # its class definition instead. if hasattr(obj, '__class__'): try: src = inspect.getsource(obj.__class__) except TypeError: return None encoding = get_encoding(obj) return cast_unicode(src, encoding=encoding) def is_simple_callable(obj): """True if obj is a function ()""" return (inspect.isfunction(obj) or inspect.ismethod(obj) or \ isinstance(obj, _builtin_func_type) or isinstance(obj, _builtin_meth_type)) def getargspec(obj): """Wrapper around :func:`inspect.getfullargspec` on Python 3, and :func:inspect.getargspec` on Python 2. In addition to functions and methods, this can also handle objects with a ``__call__`` attribute. """ if safe_hasattr(obj, '__call__') and not is_simple_callable(obj): obj = obj.__call__ return inspect.getfullargspec(obj) def format_argspec(argspec): """Format argspect, convenience wrapper around inspect's. This takes a dict instead of ordered arguments and calls inspect.format_argspec with the arguments in the necessary order. """ return inspect.formatargspec(argspec['args'], argspec['varargs'], argspec['varkw'], argspec['defaults']) @undoc def call_tip(oinfo, format_call=True): """DEPRECATED. Extract call tip data from an oinfo dict. """ warnings.warn('`call_tip` function is deprecated as of IPython 6.0' 'and will be removed in future versions.', DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2) # Get call definition argspec = oinfo.get('argspec') if argspec is None: call_line = None else: # Callable objects will have 'self' as their first argument, prune # it out if it's there for clarity (since users do *not* pass an # extra first argument explicitly). try: has_self = argspec['args'][0] == 'self' except (KeyError, IndexError): pass else: if has_self: argspec['args'] = argspec['args'][1:] call_line = oinfo['name']+format_argspec(argspec) # Now get docstring. # The priority is: call docstring, constructor docstring, main one. doc = oinfo.get('call_docstring') if doc is None: doc = oinfo.get('init_docstring') if doc is None: doc = oinfo.get('docstring','') return call_line, doc def _get_wrapped(obj): """Get the original object if wrapped in one or more @decorators Some objects automatically construct similar objects on any unrecognised attribute access (e.g. unittest.mock.call). To protect against infinite loops, this will arbitrarily cut off after 100 levels of obj.__wrapped__ attribute access. --TK, Jan 2016 """ orig_obj = obj i = 0 while safe_hasattr(obj, '__wrapped__'): obj = obj.__wrapped__ i += 1 if i > 100: # __wrapped__ is probably a lie, so return the thing we started with return orig_obj return obj def find_file(obj): """Find the absolute path to the file where an object was defined. This is essentially a robust wrapper around `inspect.getabsfile`. Returns None if no file can be found. Parameters ---------- obj : any Python object Returns ------- fname : str The absolute path to the file where the object was defined. """ obj = _get_wrapped(obj) fname = None try: fname = inspect.getabsfile(obj) except TypeError: # For an instance, the file that matters is where its class was # declared. if hasattr(obj, '__class__'): try: fname = inspect.getabsfile(obj.__class__) except TypeError: # Can happen for builtins pass except: pass return cast_unicode(fname) def find_source_lines(obj): """Find the line number in a file where an object was defined. This is essentially a robust wrapper around `inspect.getsourcelines`. Returns None if no file can be found. Parameters ---------- obj : any Python object Returns ------- lineno : int The line number where the object definition starts. """ obj = _get_wrapped(obj) try: try: lineno = inspect.getsourcelines(obj)[1] except TypeError: # For instances, try the class object like getsource() does if hasattr(obj, '__class__'): lineno = inspect.getsourcelines(obj.__class__)[1] else: lineno = None except: return None return lineno class Inspector(Colorable): def __init__(self, color_table=InspectColors, code_color_table=PyColorize.ANSICodeColors, scheme=None, str_detail_level=0, parent=None, config=None): super(Inspector, self).__init__(parent=parent, config=config) self.color_table = color_table self.parser = PyColorize.Parser(out='str', parent=self, style=scheme) self.format = self.parser.format self.str_detail_level = str_detail_level self.set_active_scheme(scheme) def _getdef(self,obj,oname=''): """Return the call signature for any callable object. If any exception is generated, None is returned instead and the exception is suppressed.""" try: hdef = _render_signature(signature(obj), oname) return cast_unicode(hdef) except: return None def __head(self,h): """Return a header string with proper colors.""" return '%s%s%s' % (self.color_table.active_colors.header,h, self.color_table.active_colors.normal) def set_active_scheme(self, scheme): if scheme is not None: self.color_table.set_active_scheme(scheme) self.parser.color_table.set_active_scheme(scheme) def noinfo(self, msg, oname): """Generic message when no information is found.""" print('No %s found' % msg, end=' ') if oname: print('for %s' % oname) else: print() def pdef(self, obj, oname=''): """Print the call signature for any callable object. If the object is a class, print the constructor information.""" if not callable(obj): print('Object is not callable.') return header = '' if inspect.isclass(obj): header = self.__head('Class constructor information:\n') output = self._getdef(obj,oname) if output is None: self.noinfo('definition header',oname) else: print(header,self.format(output), end=' ') # In Python 3, all classes are new-style, so they all have __init__. @skip_doctest def pdoc(self, obj, oname='', formatter=None): """Print the docstring for any object. Optional: -formatter: a function to run the docstring through for specially formatted docstrings. Examples -------- In [1]: class NoInit: ...: pass In [2]: class NoDoc: ...: def __init__(self): ...: pass In [3]: %pdoc NoDoc No documentation found for NoDoc In [4]: %pdoc NoInit No documentation found for NoInit In [5]: obj = NoInit() In [6]: %pdoc obj No documentation found for obj In [5]: obj2 = NoDoc() In [6]: %pdoc obj2 No documentation found for obj2 """ head = self.__head # For convenience lines = [] ds = getdoc(obj) if formatter: ds = formatter(ds).get('plain/text', ds) if ds: lines.append(head("Class docstring:")) lines.append(indent(ds)) if inspect.isclass(obj) and hasattr(obj, '__init__'): init_ds = getdoc(obj.__init__) if init_ds is not None: lines.append(head("Init docstring:")) lines.append(indent(init_ds)) elif hasattr(obj,'__call__'): call_ds = getdoc(obj.__call__) if call_ds: lines.append(head("Call docstring:")) lines.append(indent(call_ds)) if not lines: self.noinfo('documentation',oname) else: page.page('\n'.join(lines)) def psource(self, obj, oname=''): """Print the source code for an object.""" # Flush the source cache because inspect can return out-of-date source linecache.checkcache() try: src = getsource(obj, oname=oname) except Exception: src = None if src is None: self.noinfo('source', oname) else: page.page(self.format(src)) def pfile(self, obj, oname=''): """Show the whole file where an object was defined.""" lineno = find_source_lines(obj) if lineno is None: self.noinfo('file', oname) return ofile = find_file(obj) # run contents of file through pager starting at line where the object # is defined, as long as the file isn't binary and is actually on the # filesystem. if ofile.endswith(('.so', '.dll', '.pyd')): print('File %r is binary, not printing.' % ofile) elif not os.path.isfile(ofile): print('File %r does not exist, not printing.' % ofile) else: # Print only text files, not extension binaries. Note that # getsourcelines returns lineno with 1-offset and page() uses # 0-offset, so we must adjust. page.page(self.format(openpy.read_py_file(ofile, skip_encoding_cookie=False)), lineno - 1) def _format_fields(self, fields, title_width=0): """Formats a list of fields for display. Parameters ---------- fields : list A list of 2-tuples: (field_title, field_content) title_width : int How many characters to pad titles to. Default to longest title. """ out = [] header = self.__head if title_width == 0: title_width = max(len(title) + 2 for title, _ in fields) for title, content in fields: if len(content.splitlines()) > 1: title = header(title + ':') + '\n' else: title = header((title + ':').ljust(title_width)) out.append(cast_unicode(title) + cast_unicode(content)) return "\n".join(out) def _mime_format(self, text, formatter=None): """Return a mime bundle representation of the input text. - if `formatter` is None, the returned mime bundle has a `text/plain` field, with the input text. a `text/html` field with a `
` tag containing the input text. - if `formatter` is not None, it must be a callable transforming the input text into a mime bundle. Default values for `text/plain` and `text/html` representations are the ones described above. Note: Formatters returning strings are supported but this behavior is deprecated. """ text = cast_unicode(text) defaults = { 'text/plain': text, 'text/html': '' + text + '' } if formatter is None: return defaults else: formatted = formatter(text) if not isinstance(formatted, dict): # Handle the deprecated behavior of a formatter returning # a string instead of a mime bundle. return { 'text/plain': formatted, 'text/html': '' + formatted + '' } else: return dict(defaults, **formatted) def format_mime(self, bundle): text_plain = bundle['text/plain'] text = '' heads, bodies = list(zip(*text_plain)) _len = max(len(h) for h in heads) for head, body in zip(heads, bodies): body = body.strip('\n') delim = '\n' if '\n' in body else ' ' text += self.__head(head+':') + (_len - len(head))*' ' +delim + body +'\n' bundle['text/plain'] = text return bundle def _get_info(self, obj, oname='', formatter=None, info=None, detail_level=0): """Retrieve an info dict and format it. Parameters ========== obj: any Object to inspect and return info from oname: str (default: ''): Name of the variable pointing to `obj`. formatter: callable info: already computed information detail_level: integer Granularity of detail level, if set to 1, give more information. """ info = self._info(obj, oname=oname, info=info, detail_level=detail_level) _mime = { 'text/plain': [], 'text/html': '', } def append_field(bundle, title, key, formatter=None): field = info[key] if field is not None: formatted_field = self._mime_format(field, formatter) bundle['text/plain'].append((title, formatted_field['text/plain'])) bundle['text/html'] += '' + title + '
\n' + formatted_field['text/html'] + '\n' def code_formatter(text): return { 'text/plain': self.format(text), 'text/html': pylight(text) } if info['isalias']: append_field(_mime, 'Repr', 'string_form') elif info['ismagic']: if detail_level > 0: append_field(_mime, 'Source', 'source', code_formatter) else: append_field(_mime, 'Docstring', 'docstring', formatter) append_field(_mime, 'File', 'file') elif info['isclass'] or is_simple_callable(obj): # Functions, methods, classes append_field(_mime, 'Signature', 'definition', code_formatter) append_field(_mime, 'Init signature', 'init_definition', code_formatter) append_field(_mime, 'Docstring', 'docstring', formatter) if detail_level > 0 and info['source']: append_field(_mime, 'Source', 'source', code_formatter) else: append_field(_mime, 'Init docstring', 'init_docstring', formatter) append_field(_mime, 'File', 'file') append_field(_mime, 'Type', 'type_name') append_field(_mime, 'Subclasses', 'subclasses') else: # General Python objects append_field(_mime, 'Signature', 'definition', code_formatter) append_field(_mime, 'Call signature', 'call_def', code_formatter) append_field(_mime, 'Type', 'type_name') append_field(_mime, 'String form', 'string_form') # Namespace if info['namespace'] != 'Interactive': append_field(_mime, 'Namespace', 'namespace') append_field(_mime, 'Length', 'length') append_field(_mime, 'File', 'file') # Source or docstring, depending on detail level and whether # source found. if detail_level > 0 and info['source']: append_field(_mime, 'Source', 'source', code_formatter) else: append_field(_mime, 'Docstring', 'docstring', formatter) append_field(_mime, 'Class docstring', 'class_docstring', formatter) append_field(_mime, 'Init docstring', 'init_docstring', formatter) append_field(_mime, 'Call docstring', 'call_docstring', formatter) return self.format_mime(_mime) def pinfo(self, obj, oname='', formatter=None, info=None, detail_level=0, enable_html_pager=True): """Show detailed information about an object. Optional arguments: - oname: name of the variable pointing to the object. - formatter: callable (optional) A special formatter for docstrings. The formatter is a callable that takes a string as an input and returns either a formatted string or a mime type bundle in the form of a dictionary. Although the support of custom formatter returning a string instead of a mime type bundle is deprecated. - info: a structure with some information fields which may have been precomputed already. - detail_level: if set to 1, more information is given. """ info = self._get_info(obj, oname, formatter, info, detail_level) if not enable_html_pager: del info['text/html'] page.page(info) def info(self, obj, oname='', formatter=None, info=None, detail_level=0): """DEPRECATED. Compute a dict with detailed information about an object. """ if formatter is not None: warnings.warn('The `formatter` keyword argument to `Inspector.info`' 'is deprecated as of IPython 5.0 and will have no effects.', DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2) return self._info(obj, oname=oname, info=info, detail_level=detail_level) def _info(self, obj, oname='', info=None, detail_level=0) -> dict: """Compute a dict with detailed information about an object. Parameters ========== obj: any An object to find information about oname: str (default: ''): Name of the variable pointing to `obj`. info: (default: None) A struct (dict like with attr access) with some information fields which may have been precomputed already. detail_level: int (default:0) If set to 1, more information is given. Returns ======= An object info dict with known fields from `info_fields`. """ if info is None: ismagic = False isalias = False ospace = '' else: ismagic = info.ismagic isalias = info.isalias ospace = info.namespace # Get docstring, special-casing aliases: if isalias: if not callable(obj): try: ds = "Alias to the system command:\n %s" % obj[1] except: ds = "Alias: " + str(obj) else: ds = "Alias to " + str(obj) if obj.__doc__: ds += "\nDocstring:\n" + obj.__doc__ else: ds = getdoc(obj) if ds is None: ds = '' # store output in a dict, we initialize it here and fill it as we go out = dict(name=oname, found=True, isalias=isalias, ismagic=ismagic, subclasses=None) string_max = 200 # max size of strings to show (snipped if longer) shalf = int((string_max - 5) / 2) if ismagic: out['type_name'] = 'Magic function' elif isalias: out['type_name'] = 'System alias' else: out['type_name'] = type(obj).__name__ try: bclass = obj.__class__ out['base_class'] = str(bclass) except: pass # String form, but snip if too long in ? form (full in ??) if detail_level >= self.str_detail_level: try: ostr = str(obj) str_head = 'string_form' if not detail_level and len(ostr)>string_max: ostr = ostr[:shalf] + ' <...> ' + ostr[-shalf:] ostr = ("\n" + " " * len(str_head.expandtabs())).\ join(q.strip() for q in ostr.split("\n")) out[str_head] = ostr except: pass if ospace: out['namespace'] = ospace # Length (for strings and lists) try: out['length'] = str(len(obj)) except Exception: pass # Filename where object was defined binary_file = False fname = find_file(obj) if fname is None: # if anything goes wrong, we don't want to show source, so it's as # if the file was binary binary_file = True else: if fname.endswith(('.so', '.dll', '.pyd')): binary_file = True elif fname.endswith(' '): fname = 'Dynamically generated function. No source code available.' out['file'] = compress_user(fname) # Original source code for a callable, class or property. if detail_level: # Flush the source cache because inspect can return out-of-date # source linecache.checkcache() try: if isinstance(obj, property) or not binary_file: src = getsource(obj, oname) if src is not None: src = src.rstrip() out['source'] = src except Exception: pass # Add docstring only if no source is to be shown (avoid repetitions). if ds and not self._source_contains_docstring(out.get('source'), ds): out['docstring'] = ds # Constructor docstring for classes if inspect.isclass(obj): out['isclass'] = True # get the init signature: try: init_def = self._getdef(obj, oname) except AttributeError: init_def = None # get the __init__ docstring try: obj_init = obj.__init__ except AttributeError: init_ds = None else: if init_def is None: # Get signature from init if top-level sig failed. # Can happen for built-in types (list, etc.). try: init_def = self._getdef(obj_init, oname) except AttributeError: pass init_ds = getdoc(obj_init) # Skip Python's auto-generated docstrings if init_ds == _object_init_docstring: init_ds = None if init_def: out['init_definition'] = init_def if init_ds: out['init_docstring'] = init_ds names = [sub.__name__ for sub in type.__subclasses__(obj)] if len(names) < 10: all_names = ', '.join(names) else: all_names = ', '.join(names[:10]+['...']) out['subclasses'] = all_names # and class docstring for instances: else: # reconstruct the function definition and print it: defln = self._getdef(obj, oname) if defln: out['definition'] = defln # First, check whether the instance docstring is identical to the # class one, and print it separately if they don't coincide. In # most cases they will, but it's nice to print all the info for # objects which use instance-customized docstrings. if ds: try: cls = getattr(obj,'__class__') except: class_ds = None else: class_ds = getdoc(cls) # Skip Python's auto-generated docstrings if class_ds in _builtin_type_docstrings: class_ds = None if class_ds and ds != class_ds: out['class_docstring'] = class_ds # Next, try to show constructor docstrings try: init_ds = getdoc(obj.__init__) # Skip Python's auto-generated docstrings if init_ds == _object_init_docstring: init_ds = None except AttributeError: init_ds = None if init_ds: out['init_docstring'] = init_ds # Call form docstring for callable instances if safe_hasattr(obj, '__call__') and not is_simple_callable(obj): call_def = self._getdef(obj.__call__, oname) if call_def and (call_def != out.get('definition')): # it may never be the case that call def and definition differ, # but don't include the same signature twice out['call_def'] = call_def call_ds = getdoc(obj.__call__) # Skip Python's auto-generated docstrings if call_ds == _func_call_docstring: call_ds = None if call_ds: out['call_docstring'] = call_ds # Compute the object's argspec as a callable. The key is to decide # whether to pull it from the object itself, from its __init__ or # from its __call__ method. if inspect.isclass(obj): # Old-style classes need not have an __init__ callable_obj = getattr(obj, "__init__", None) elif callable(obj): callable_obj = obj else: callable_obj = None if callable_obj is not None: try: argspec = getargspec(callable_obj) except Exception: # For extensions/builtins we can't retrieve the argspec pass else: # named tuples' _asdict() method returns an OrderedDict, but we # we want a normal out['argspec'] = argspec_dict = dict(argspec._asdict()) # We called this varkw before argspec became a named tuple. # With getfullargspec it's also called varkw. if 'varkw' not in argspec_dict: argspec_dict['varkw'] = argspec_dict.pop('keywords') return object_info(**out) @staticmethod def _source_contains_docstring(src, doc): """ Check whether the source *src* contains the docstring *doc*. This is is helper function to skip displaying the docstring if the source already contains it, avoiding repetition of information. """ try: def_node, = ast.parse(dedent(src)).body return ast.get_docstring(def_node) == doc except Exception: # The source can become invalid or even non-existent (because it # is re-fetched from the source file) so the above code fail in # arbitrary ways. return False def psearch(self,pattern,ns_table,ns_search=[], ignore_case=False,show_all=False, *, list_types=False): """Search namespaces with wildcards for objects. Arguments: - pattern: string containing shell-like wildcards to use in namespace searches and optionally a type specification to narrow the search to objects of that type. - ns_table: dict of name->namespaces for search. Optional arguments: - ns_search: list of namespace names to include in search. - ignore_case(False): make the search case-insensitive. - show_all(False): show all names, including those starting with underscores. - list_types(False): list all available object types for object matching. """ #print 'ps pattern:<%r>' % pattern # dbg # defaults type_pattern = 'all' filter = '' # list all object types if list_types: page.page('\n'.join(sorted(typestr2type))) return cmds = pattern.split() len_cmds = len(cmds) if len_cmds == 1: # Only filter pattern given filter = cmds[0] elif len_cmds == 2: # Both filter and type specified filter,type_pattern = cmds else: raise ValueError('invalid argument string for psearch: <%s>' % pattern) # filter search namespaces for name in ns_search: if name not in ns_table: raise ValueError('invalid namespace <%s>. Valid names: %s' % (name,ns_table.keys())) #print 'type_pattern:',type_pattern # dbg search_result, namespaces_seen = set(), set() for ns_name in ns_search: ns = ns_table[ns_name] # Normally, locals and globals are the same, so we just check one. if id(ns) in namespaces_seen: continue namespaces_seen.add(id(ns)) tmp_res = list_namespace(ns, type_pattern, filter, ignore_case=ignore_case, show_all=show_all) search_result.update(tmp_res) page.page('\n'.join(sorted(search_result))) def _render_signature(obj_signature, obj_name): """ This was mostly taken from inspect.Signature.__str__. Look there for the comments. The only change is to add linebreaks when this gets too long. """ result = [] pos_only = False kw_only = True for param in obj_signature.parameters.values(): if param.kind == inspect._POSITIONAL_ONLY: pos_only = True elif pos_only: result.append('/') pos_only = False if param.kind == inspect._VAR_POSITIONAL: kw_only = False elif param.kind == inspect._KEYWORD_ONLY and kw_only: result.append('*') kw_only = False result.append(str(param)) if pos_only: result.append('/') # add up name, parameters, braces (2), and commas if len(obj_name) + sum(len(r) + 2 for r in result) > 75: # This doesn’t fit behind “Signature: ” in an inspect window. rendered = '{}(\n{})'.format(obj_name, ''.join( ' {},\n'.format(r) for r in result) ) else: rendered = '{}({})'.format(obj_name, ', '.join(result)) if obj_signature.return_annotation is not inspect._empty: anno = inspect.formatannotation(obj_signature.return_annotation) rendered += ' -> {}'.format(anno) return rendered