from astroid import arguments, inference_tip, nodes from astroid.exceptions import UseInferenceDefault from astroid.manager import AstroidManager def infer_namespace(node, context=None): callsite = arguments.CallSite.from_call(node, context=context) if not callsite.keyword_arguments: # Cannot make sense of it. raise UseInferenceDefault() class_node = nodes.ClassDef("Namespace", "docstring") class_node.parent = node.parent for attr in set(callsite.keyword_arguments): fake_node = nodes.EmptyNode() fake_node.parent = class_node fake_node.attrname = attr class_node.instance_attrs[attr] = [fake_node] return iter((class_node.instantiate_class(),)) def _looks_like_namespace(node): func = node.func if isinstance(func, nodes.Attribute): return ( func.attrname == "Namespace" and isinstance(func.expr, nodes.Name) and func.expr.name == "argparse" ) return False AstroidManager().register_transform( nodes.Call, inference_tip(infer_namespace), _looks_like_namespace )