Add nicer docstrings to namedtuples().

Provides better tooltips and looks better in help().
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Raymond Hettinger 2010-03-09 09:01:46 +00:00
parent 08090bf36a
commit 9bd3508530
2 changed files with 9 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -679,6 +679,7 @@ Example:
_fields = ('x', 'y')
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def __new__(_cls, x, y):
'Create a new instance of Point(x, y)'
return _tuple.__new__(_cls, (x, y))
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@classmethod
@ -690,6 +691,7 @@ Example:
return result
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def __repr__(self):
'Return a nicely formatted representation string'
return 'Point(x=%r, y=%r)' % self
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def _asdict(self):
@ -704,10 +706,11 @@ Example:
return result
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def __getnewargs__(self):
'Return self as a plain tuple. Used by copy and pickle.'
return tuple(self)
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x = _property(_itemgetter(0))
y = _property(_itemgetter(1))
x = _property(_itemgetter(0), doc='Alias for field number 0')
y = _property(_itemgetter(1), doc='Alias for field number 1')
>>> p = Point(11, y=22) # instantiate with positional or keyword arguments
>>> p[0] + p[1] # indexable like the plain tuple (11, 22)

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@ -230,6 +230,7 @@ def namedtuple(typename, field_names, verbose=False, rename=False):
__slots__ = () \n
_fields = %(field_names)r \n
def __new__(_cls, %(argtxt)s):
'Create new instance of %(typename)s(%(argtxt)s)'
return _tuple.__new__(_cls, (%(argtxt)s)) \n
@classmethod
def _make(cls, iterable, new=tuple.__new__, len=len):
@ -239,6 +240,7 @@ def namedtuple(typename, field_names, verbose=False, rename=False):
raise TypeError('Expected %(numfields)d arguments, got %%d' %% len(result))
return result \n
def __repr__(self):
'Return a nicely formatted representation string'
return '%(typename)s(%(reprtxt)s)' %% self \n
def _asdict(self):
'Return a new OrderedDict which maps field names to their values'
@ -250,9 +252,10 @@ def namedtuple(typename, field_names, verbose=False, rename=False):
raise ValueError('Got unexpected field names: %%r' %% kwds.keys())
return result \n
def __getnewargs__(self):
'Return self as a plain tuple. Used by copy and pickle.'
return tuple(self) \n\n''' % locals()
for i, name in enumerate(field_names):
template += ' %s = _property(_itemgetter(%d))\n' % (name, i)
template += " %s = _property(_itemgetter(%d), doc='Alias for field number %d')\n" % (name, i, i)
if verbose:
print template