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Inspecting a function

We can use the type() function on any of these attributes to learn more about them. For instance, we can see that fetch_words is a function object:

>>> type(words.fetch_words)<class 'function'>

We can in turn use dir() on the function to reveal its attributes:

>>> dir(words.fetch_words)['__annotations__', '__call__', '__class__', '__closure__', '__code__','__defaults__', '__delattr__', '__dict__', '__dir__', '__doc__', '__eq__','__format__', '__ge__', '__get__', '__getattribute__', '__globals__','__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__kwdefaults__', '__le__', '__lt__','__module__', '__name__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__qualname__', '__reduce__','__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__sizeof__', '__str__','__subclasshook__'] ...