Make synopsis() load modules as '__temp__' so they don't clobber anything.
Change "constants" section to "data" section.
Don't show __builtins__ or __doc__ in "data" section.
For Bob Weiner: don't boldface text in Emacs shells or dumb terminals.
Remove Helper.__repr__ (it really belongs in site.py, and should be guarded by a check for len(inspect.stack) <= 2).
Fix so that docother() doesn't blow up.
Eliminate man() function since doc() and man() did nearly the same thing.
Various other code cleanup and refactoring to reduce duplication.
Simplify and rewrite freshimport() so modules are always up to date,
even within packages (where reload() doesn't work).
Add finalization callback to the server (so that if the server fails to
start for some reason, the main thread isn't left hanging).
Avoid ever using popen on Windows, since it's broken there.
Factor out the business of getting the summary line into splitdoc().
Use the modulename() routine in inspect.
Show all members of modules and classes rather than filtering on leading '_'.
Small typo and formtating fixes.
Don't show warnings when running "pydoc -k".
Font adjustment to improve viewing in Windows (the default monospaced font,
Courier New, seems to have no reasonable size in IE!)
Improve error handling. Try very hard to distinguish between failure to
find a module and failure during the module importing process.
Improve reloading behaviour. (Still needs some work.)
Add '.' to sys.path when running as a script at the command-line.
Don't automatically assume '-g' based on the platform. We'll just have
the batch file supply -g.
Factor description of import errors into DocImportError.__str__.
Add "docother" and "fail" methods to Doc class.
Factor formatting of constants into "docother".
Increase max string repr limit to 100 characters.
Factor page generation into HTMLDoc.page.
Handle aliasing of names (objects appearing under an attribute
name different from their intrinsic __name__) by passing the
attribute name into each doc* method.
Handle methods at top level of modules (e.g. in random).
Try to do reloading efficiently.
Important fixes still to do:
Module reloading is broken by the unfortunate property that
failed imports leave an incomplete module in sys. Still
need to think of a good solution.
Can't document modules in the current directory, due to the
other unfortunate property that sys.path gets '.' when
you run 'python' but it gets the script directory when
you run a script. Need to ponder to find a solution.
The synopsis() routine does not work on .so modules.
Aliases cause duplicate copies of documentation to appear.
This is easy to fix, just more work.
Classes appear as their intrinsic name, not their attribute name,
in the class hierarchy. This should be fixed.
Inherited methods should be listed in class descriptions.
Add checks for .pyo and .pyd.
Collapse docfunction, docmethod, docbuiltin into the one method docroutine.
Small formatting fixes.
Link the segments of a package path in the title.
Link to the source file only if it exists.
Allow modules (e.g. repr.py) to take precedence over built-ins (e.g. repr()).
Add interruptible synopsis scanner (so we can do searches in the background).
Make HTTP server quit.
Add small GUI for controlling the server and launching searches (like -k).
(Tested on Win2k, Win98, and Linux.)
Handle <... at 001B6378> like <... at 0x120f80> (%p is platform-dependent).
Fix RCS version tag handling.
Move __main__ behaviour into a function, pydoc.cli().
Ka-Ping Yee
Tim Peters
Guido van Rossum