Parsing Function names, arguments, return value from python file?

Question

Im trying to get all the function names, with their arguments, and return's of a python file, using python script.

Tried to use AST library with FunctionDef class but couldn't able to extract the information I'm looking for.

Thanks.

Answer 1

This answer recommends the inspect module for getting a list of functions; it can be used (but isn't required) for accessing function parameter names. To the best of my knowledge, Python's design doesn't really allow getting this information about a function's return values; so you might have to annotate those yourself, be it with a docstring, custom attribute, type hint, etc.