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45 changes: 42 additions & 3 deletions Doc/library/inspect.rst
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Expand Up @@ -424,24 +424,63 @@ attributes (see :ref:`import-mod-attrs` for module attributes):

Return ``True`` if the object is a bound method written in Python.

.. note::

.. function:: ispackage(object)
For example, given this class::

Return ``True`` if the object is a :term:`package`.
>>> class Greeter:
... def say_hello(self):
... print('hello!')

.. versionadded:: 3.14
A bound method (also known as an *instance method*) is created when
accessing ``say_hello`` (a :term:`function` defined in the
``Greeter`` namespace) through an instance of the ``Greeter`` class::

>>> instance = Greeter()

>>> instance.say_hello
<bound method Greeter.say_hello of <__main__.Greeter object ...>>
>>> ismethod(instance.say_hello)
True
>>> isfunction(instance.say_hello)
False

Accessing ``say_hello`` through the ``Greeter`` class will return the
function itself. For this function, :func:`ismethod` will return
``False``, but :func:`isfunction` will return ``True``::

>>> Greeter.say_hello
<function Greeter.say_hello at 0x7f7503854a90>
>>> ismethod(Greeter.say_hello)
False
>>> isfunction(Greeter.say_hello)
True

See :ref:`typesmethods` for details.


.. function:: isfunction(object)

Return ``True`` if the object is a Python function, which includes functions
created by a :term:`lambda` expression.

See the note for :func:`~inspect.ismethod` for an example.


.. function:: ispackage(object)

Return ``True`` if the object is a :term:`package`.

.. versionadded:: 3.14


.. function:: isgeneratorfunction(object)

Return ``True`` if the object is a Python generator function.

It also returns ``True`` for bound methods created from Python generator functions
(see :ref:`typesmethods` for more information).

.. versionchanged:: 3.8
Functions wrapped in :func:`functools.partial` now return ``True`` if the
wrapped function is a Python generator function.
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