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Rewrite python function without inspect module

How would I write this introspective function without using the inspect module. 

import inspect

def trace(cls):
    for name, m in inspect.getmembers(cls, inspect.ismethod):
        setattr(cls,name,log(m))
    return cls

The above is from this SO question/answer

Edit/Clarification: Is it possible to do this without any imports also?

Note this is not a real use case rather a pure and simple case of curiosity on my part.

Solution

  • something like this:

    >>> class Tester(object):
...   def mymethod(self):
...     return True
... 
>>> hasattr(Tester, 'mymethod')
True
>>> hasattr(Tester.mymethod, 'im_func')
True

    from the python docs on the data model scroll down a bit to get to "user defined methods".

    Special read-only attributes: im_self is the class instance object, im_func is the function object; im_class is the class of im_self for bound methods or the class that asked for the method for unbound methods; __doc__ is the method’s documentation (same as im_func.__doc__); __name__ is the method name (same as im_func.__name__); __module__ is the name of the module the method was defined in, or None if unavailable.

    im_func and im_self as of 2.6 are also availabale as __func__ and __self__ respectively. I sort of tend to gravitate here than use the inspect module myself.