SF bug [#472347] pydoc and properties.

The GUI-mode code to display properties blew up if the property functions
(get, set, etc) weren't simply methods (or functions).

"The problem" here is really that the generic document() method dispatches
to one of .doc{routine, class, module, other}(), but all of those require
a different(!) number of arguments.  Thus document isn't general-purpose
at all:  you have to know exactly what kind of thing is it you're going
to document first, in order to pass the correct number of arguments to
.document for it to pass on.  As an expedient hack, just tacked "*ignored"
on to the end of the formal argument lists for the .docXXX routines so
that .document's caller doesn't have to know in advance which path
.document is going to take.

Lib/pydoc.py

@@ -486,7 +486,7 @@ TT { font-family: lucidatypewriter, lucida console, courier }
                     entry, modname, c)
         return '<dl>\n%s</dl>\n' % result
 
-    def docmodule(self, object, name=None, mod=None):
+    def docmodule(self, object, name=None, mod=None, *ignored):
         """Produce HTML documentation for a module object."""
         name = object.__name__ # ignore the passed-in name
         parts = split(name, '.')
@@ -601,7 +601,8 @@ TT { font-family: lucidatypewriter, lucida console, courier }
 
         return result
 
-    def docclass(self, object, name=None, mod=None, funcs={}, classes={}):
+    def docclass(self, object, name=None, mod=None, funcs={}, classes={},
+                 *ignored):
         """Produce HTML documentation for a class object."""
         realname = object.__name__
         name = name or realname
@@ -800,7 +801,7 @@ TT { font-family: lucidatypewriter, lucida console, courier }
             doc = doc and '<dd><tt>%s</tt></dd>' % doc
             return '<dl><dt>%s</dt>%s</dl>\n' % (decl, doc)
 
-    def docother(self, object, name=None, mod=None):
+    def docother(self, object, name=None, mod=None, *ignored):
         """Produce HTML documentation for a data object."""
         lhs = name and '<strong>%s</strong> = ' % name or ''
         return lhs + self.repr(object)

Lib/test/pydocfodder.py

@@ -177,3 +177,34 @@ class D_new(B_new, C_new):
         "Method defined in C and D."
     def D_method(self):
         "Method defined in D."
+
+class FunkyProperties(object):
+    """From SF bug 472347, by Roeland Rengelink.
+
+    Property getters etc may not be vanilla functions or methods,
+    and this used to make GUI pydoc blow up.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.desc = {'x':0}
+
+    class get_desc:
+        def __init__(self, attr):
+            self.attr = attr
+        def __call__(self, inst):
+            print 'Get called', self, inst
+            return inst.desc[self.attr]
+    class set_desc:
+        def __init__(self, attr):
+            self.attr = attr
+        def __call__(self, inst, val):
+            print 'Set called', self, inst, val
+            inst.desc[self.attr] = val
+    class del_desc:
+        def __init__(self, attr):
+            self.attr = attr
+        def __call__(self, inst):
+            print 'Del called', self, inst
+            del inst.desc[self.attr]
+
+    x = property(get_desc('x'), set_desc('x'), del_desc('x'), 'prop x')