Programmatically create function specification

Question

For my own entertainment, I was wondering how to achieve the following:

functionA = make_fun([\'paramA\', \'paramB\'])
functionB = make_fun([\'arg1\', \'arg2\',          


        

Answer 1

One of the possible solutions using a class:

def make_fun(args_list):
    args_list = args_list[:]

    class MyFunc(object):
        def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
            if len(args) > len(args_list):
                raise ValueError('Too many arguments passed.')

            # At this point all positional arguments are fine.
            for arg in args_list[len(args):]:
                if arg not in kwargs:
                    raise ValueError('Missing value for argument {}.'.format(arg))

            # At this point, all arguments have been passed either as
            # positional or keyword.
            if len(args_list) - len(args) != len(kwargs):
                raise ValueError('Too many arguments passed.')

            for arg in args:
                print(arg)

            for arg in args_list[len(args):]:
                print(kwargs[arg])

    return MyFunc()

functionA = make_fun(['paramA', 'paramB'])
functionB = make_fun(['arg1', 'arg2', 'arg3'])

functionA(3, paramB=1)       # Works
try:
    functionA(3, 2, 1)           # Fails
except ValueError as e:
    print(e)

try:
    functionB(0)                 # Fails
except ValueError as e:
    print(e)

try:
    functionB(arg1=1, arg2=2, arg3=3, paramC=1)                 # Fails
except ValueError as e:
    print(e)