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Asked: 2026-06-17T21:38:28+00:00

My program derives a sequence args and a mapping kwargs from user input. I

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My program derives a sequence args and a mapping kwargs from user input. I want to check that input, and then forward it to a python function f (which is chosen based on user input). In this case, a function signature mismatch between f and [kw]args is an input error; I must distinguish it from possible programming errors within the implementation of f, even though they might both raise TypeError.

So I want to check the signature before attempting the function call. Is there a way to do this other than to manually compare [kw]args to the result of inspect.getargspec (or .getfullargspec or .signature in later python versions)?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The method using inspect is probably the most straightforward way of doing this that exists – it’s not something one would normally expect to be doing in Python.

    (Typically, allowing end users to call arbitrary functions with arbitrary inputs is not what a programmer wants.)

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