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Tim Peters 3e767d19e0 GUI mode now displays useful stuff for properties. This is usually better
than text mode, since here we can hyperlink from the getter etc methods
back to their definitions.
2001-09-25 00:01:06 +00:00
Tim Peters f4aad8eb28 + Text-mode (but not yet GUI mode) pydoc now produces useful stuff for
properties:  the docstring (if any) is displayed, and the getter, setter
  and deleter (if any) functions are named.  All that is shown indented
  after the property name.

+ Text-mode pydoc class display now draws a horizontal line between
  class attribute groups (similar to GUI mode -- while visually more
  intrusive in text mode, it's still an improvement).
2001-09-24 22:40:47 +00:00
Tim Peters fa26f7cc39 More work on class display:
+ Minor code cleanup, generalization and simplification.

+ "Do something" to make the attribute aggregation more apparent:
    - In text mode, stick a "* " at the front of subgroup header lines.
    - In GUI mode, display a horizontal rule between subgroups.
   For GUI mode, this is a huge improvement, at least under IE.
2001-09-24 08:05:11 +00:00
Tim Peters b47879b239 Try to do for pydoc's GUI mode what the earlier checkin did for text
mode (identify the source class for class attrs; segregate attrs according
to source class, and whether class method, static method, property, plain
method, or data; display data attrs; display docstrings for data attrs
when possible).

Alas, this is mondo ugly, and I'm no HTML guy.  Part of the problem is
that pydoc's GUI mode has always been ugly under IE, largely because
<small> under IE renders docstrings unreadably small (while sometimes
non-docstring text is painfully large).  Another part is that these
segregated listings of attrs would *probably* look much better as bulleted
lists.  Alas, when I tried that, the bullets all ended up on lines by
themselves, before the method names; this is apparently because pydoc
(ab?)uses definition lists for format effects, and at least under IE
if a definition list is the first chunk of a list item, it gets rendered
on a line after the <li> bullet.

An HTML wizard would certainly be welcomed here.
2001-09-24 04:47:19 +00:00
Tim Peters 28355496c1 Part of a partial solution to SF bugs 463378, 463381, 463383, 463384.
This almost entirely replaces how pydoc pumps out class docs, but only
in text mode (like help(whatever) from a Python shell), not in GUI mode.

A class C's attrs are now grouped by the class in which they're defined,
attrs defined by C first, then inherited attrs grouped by alphabetic order
of the defining classes' names.

Within each of those groups, the attrs are subgrouped according to whether
they're plain methods, class methods, static methods, properties, or data.
Note that pydoc never dumped class data attrs before.  If a class data
attr is implemented via a data descriptor, the data docstring (if any)
is also displayed (e.g., file.softspace).

Within a subgroup, the attrs are listed alphabetically.

This is a friggin' mess, and there are bound to be glitches.  Please
beat on it and complain!  Here are three glitches:

1. __new__ gets classifed as 'data', for some reason.  This will
   have to get fixed in inspect.py, but since the latter is already
   looking for any clue that something is a method, pydoc will
   almost certainly not know what to do with it when its classification
   changes.

2. properties are special-cased to death.  Unlike any other kind of
   function or method, they don't have a __name__ attr, so none of
   pydoc's usual code can deal with them.  Worse, the getter and
   setter and del'er methods associated with a property don't appear
   to be discoverable from Python, so there's really nothing I can
   think of to do here beyond just listing their names.

   Note that a property can't be given a docstring, either (or at least
   I've been unable to sneak one in) -- perhaps the property()
   constructor could take an optional doc argument?

3. In a nested-scopes world, pydoc still doesn't know anything about
   nesting, so e.g. classes nested in functions are effectively invisible.
2001-09-23 21:29:55 +00:00
Tim Peters 4bcfa317ee Since inspect.isfunction(obj) is a precondition for calling
inspect.getargspec(obj), test isfunction() directly in pydoc.py instead
of trying to indirectly deduce isfunction() in pydoc by virtue of
failing a combination of other tests.  This shouldn't have any visible
effect, except perhaps to squash a TypeError death if there was some path
thru this code that was inferring isfunction() by mistake.
2001-09-20 06:08:24 +00:00
Tim Peters 536d2262f7 After much thrashing, I believe this is a truly minimal patch to teach
pydoc how to do something sensible with 2.2 descriptors.  To see the
difference, browse __builtin__ via pydoc before and after the patch.
2001-09-20 05:13:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 5e9eb98ff6 Oh, ok, so plainpager is probably marginally better. 2001-07-23 19:48:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 0a66fcb116 If $TERM is "dumb" or "emacs", just dump the text instead of trying to run
"less".
Patch contributed by Alex Convertry.
This closes SF patch #443551.
2001-07-23 19:44:30 +00:00
Fred Drake e61967f537 Change some text just a little to avoid font-lock hell. 2001-05-10 18:41:02 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee d03f8fe95e One-character style change to appease Netscape stylesheets. 2001-04-13 15:04:32 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee 6191a23537 Use nturl2path to generate a file: URL to source files in Windows. 2001-04-13 15:00:27 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee 9bc576b7f6 Use inspect.stack()[1][3] to tell if Helper.__repr__ is called interactively. 2001-04-13 13:57:31 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee eca15c1fb1 Add inode checks to detect circular symbolic links (so that the
Tools/idle/idlelib link doesn't cause an infinite loop -- aack!)
2001-04-13 13:53:07 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee 59685c5193 Small style change to accommodate Netscape. 2001-04-13 12:11:19 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee da79389f10 Word-wrap the list of cross-references. 2001-04-13 11:02:51 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee 79c009d767 Another pass through the topic table to fill in cross references.
Restore Helper.__repr__ for now.
2001-04-13 10:53:25 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee dec96e92ae Make force-loading optional; don't force-load in interactive mode.
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).
2001-04-13 09:55:49 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee b7a48300cd Fix linking to classes (in class tree, and add links on unbound methods). 2001-04-12 20:39:14 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee 6dcfa3884d Fix call to ModuleScanner from GUI search interface.
Fix handling of unbound top-level methods.
2001-04-12 20:27:31 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee 35cf0a3f90 Added a big new Helper class to provide interactive help! 2001-04-12 19:53:52 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee 131216290b Give up trying to keep dynamically loaded extensions up to date:
the import.c machinery has soundly defeated my every attempt.
2001-04-12 13:37:39 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee fd540695e7 Remove forking. Doesn't work in Windows. 2001-04-12 12:54:36 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee 662469619a Typo fixes and small touches. 2001-04-12 11:59:50 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee 9aa0d90947 Properly qualify methods inherited from classes in other modules.
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).
2001-04-12 10:50:23 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee 41763b9603 Fix typo in instantiation of ErrorDuringImport. 2001-04-10 12:22:01 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee 5a804edd3c Fix synopsis() so it can handle binary module files.
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".
2001-04-10 11:46:02 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee f78a81b47b Fix some reloading problems (still more work needed).
Add hyperlinks to PEPs at http://www.python.org/peps/pep-%04d.html
Remove script directory (dirname of sys.argv[0]) from sys.path.
2001-03-27 08:13:42 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee e280c06d59 Browser compatibility fixes.
Show methods aliased into a class from other classes.
2001-03-23 14:05:53 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee 987ec903d6 Small formatting improvements. 2001-03-23 13:35:45 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee 3bda87991a Show inherited methods, with hyperlinks to the base class they came from.
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.
2001-03-23 13:17:50 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee 37f7b38eb6 Fixes for various issues reported and discovered since Python 9:
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.
2001-03-23 00:12:53 +00:00
Tim Peters 30edd2387d Whitespace normalization. 2001-03-16 08:29:48 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee db8ed1517f Use '127.0.0.1' only on Mac; for other, sane platforms, use 'localhost'. 2001-03-02 05:58:17 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee c92cdf7aa7 The sys.platform identifier for Windows is just 'win32' (for all varieties). 2001-03-02 05:54:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b616e114f7 Believe it or not, but "more" on Windows requires "more <file" rather
than "more file".  Since tempfilepager() is only used on Windows, it
seems, do this unconditionally -- on Unix, it always invokes something
else.
2001-03-02 04:27:08 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee 239432a545 Clean up the handling of getsourcefile/getabsfile.
Remove __main__ from the index of built-in modules.
Miscellaneous compatibility fixes.
2001-03-02 02:45:08 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee a2fe103c9b Use imp.get_suffixes to determine a module name in modulename(file).
When possible, display strings containing backslashes using r'' notation.
2001-03-02 01:19:14 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee d977e35dd0 Also accept .so as an extension for module files. 2001-03-01 19:31:25 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee 66efbc7481 Docstring improvements.
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.)
2001-03-01 13:55:20 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee 1d384634bf Normalize case of paths in sys.path to avoid duplicates on Windows.
Handle <... at 001B6378> like <... at 0x120f80> (%p is platform-dependent).
Fix RCS version tag handling.
Move __main__ behaviour into a function, pydoc.cli().
2001-03-01 00:24:32 +00:00
Tim Peters 85ba673b0a Whitespace normalization. 2001-02-28 08:26:44 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee 457aab237f Macintosh compatibility. 2001-02-27 23:36:29 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee 5e2b173333 Acknowledgements. 2001-02-27 23:35:09 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee 40c49919fb Fix $Revision$ processing so it doesn't get eaten by CVS! 2001-02-27 22:46:01 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee 09d7d9a552 Add $Revision: $ tag. 2001-02-27 22:43:48 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee 6f3f9a4c64 Add display of $Revision $ and credits. 2001-02-27 22:42:36 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee dd1753434a pydoc: text and HTML documentation generator for interactive use 2001-02-27 14:43:46 +00:00