From a2e2dbe8cda41d5c612d41acad2fe5cfb841402e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Peters Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 02:19:49 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Improve handling of docstrings. I had feared this was a case of introspection incompatibility, but in fact it's just that calltips always gave up on a docstring that started with a newline (but didn't realize they were giving up ). --- Tools/idle/CallTips.py | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Tools/idle/CallTips.py b/Tools/idle/CallTips.py index 7c5f41c73d5..0a9eb30c3b7 100644 --- a/Tools/idle/CallTips.py +++ b/Tools/idle/CallTips.py @@ -143,11 +143,16 @@ def get_arg_text(ob): except: pass # See if we can use the docstring - if hasattr(ob, "__doc__") and ob.__doc__: - pos = string.find(ob.__doc__, "\n") - if pos<0 or pos>70: pos=70 - if argText: argText = argText + "\n" - argText = argText + ob.__doc__[:pos] + doc = getattr(ob, "__doc__", "") + if doc: + while doc[:1] in " \t\n": + doc = doc[1:] + pos = doc.find("\n") + if pos < 0 or pos > 70: + pos = 70 + if argText: + argText += "\n" + argText += doc[:pos] return argText