inspect

In Python Introspection is the ability of an object to know about its attributes at runtime.

• A function knows its name and documentation.
  • print(<function_name>.__name__)

It gets information about live objects:

• modules
• classes
• methods
• functions
• tracebacks
• frame objects
• code objects

It helps you examine

• the contents of a class
• retrieve the source code of a method
• extract and format the argument list for a function
• get all the information you need to display the detailed traceback

Main services provided by this module

• type checking
• getting source code
• inspecting classes and functions
• examining the interpret stack