diff --git a/Doc/library/inspect.rst b/Doc/library/inspect.rst
index d00a30ff004..634645124c7 100644
--- a/Doc/library/inspect.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/inspect.rst
@@ -473,12 +473,15 @@ Retrieving source code
Get the documentation string for an object, cleaned up with :func:`cleandoc`.
If the documentation string for an object is not provided and the object is
- a class, a method, a property or a descriptor, retrieve the documentation
+ a method, a property or a descriptor, retrieve the documentation
string from the inheritance hierarchy.
.. versionchanged:: 3.5
Documentation strings are now inherited if not overridden.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.9
+ Documentation strings for classes are no longer inherited.
+
.. function:: getcomments(object)
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
index afb099a4ec5..aae8e5b0c97 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
@@ -346,6 +346,13 @@ pprint
:mod:`pprint` can now pretty-print :class:`types.SimpleNamespace`.
(Contributed by Carl Bordum Hansen in :issue:`37376`.)
+pydoc
+-----
+
+The documentation string is now shown not only for class, function,
+method etc, but for any object that has its own ``__doc__`` attribute.
+(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`40257`.)
+
signal
------
@@ -798,6 +805,12 @@ Changes in the Python API
:class:`ftplib.FTP_TLS` as a keyword-only parameter, and the default encoding
is changed from Latin-1 to UTF-8 to follow :rfc:`2640`.
+* :func:`inspect.getdoc` no longer returns docstring inherited from the type
+ of the object or from parent class if it is a class if it is not defined
+ in the object itself.
+ (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`40257`.)
+
+
CPython bytecode changes
------------------------
diff --git a/Lib/inspect.py b/Lib/inspect.py
index 90435a10caa..6f7d5cd19ce 100644
--- a/Lib/inspect.py
+++ b/Lib/inspect.py
@@ -542,17 +542,6 @@ def _findclass(func):
return cls
def _finddoc(obj):
- if isclass(obj):
- for base in obj.__mro__:
- if base is not object:
- try:
- doc = base.__doc__
- except AttributeError:
- continue
- if doc is not None:
- return doc
- return None
-
if ismethod(obj):
name = obj.__func__.__name__
self = obj.__self__
@@ -596,23 +585,35 @@ def _finddoc(obj):
return None
for base in cls.__mro__:
try:
- doc = getattr(base, name).__doc__
+ doc = _getowndoc(getattr(base, name))
except AttributeError:
continue
if doc is not None:
return doc
return None
+def _getowndoc(obj):
+ """Get the documentation string for an object if it is not
+ inherited from its class."""
+ try:
+ doc = object.__getattribute__(obj, '__doc__')
+ if doc is None:
+ return None
+ if obj is not type:
+ typedoc = type(obj).__doc__
+ if isinstance(typedoc, str) and typedoc == doc:
+ return None
+ return doc
+ except AttributeError:
+ return None
+
def getdoc(object):
"""Get the documentation string for an object.
All tabs are expanded to spaces. To clean up docstrings that are
indented to line up with blocks of code, any whitespace than can be
uniformly removed from the second line onwards is removed."""
- try:
- doc = object.__doc__
- except AttributeError:
- return None
+ doc = _getowndoc(object)
if doc is None:
try:
doc = _finddoc(object)
diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index f172700a15f..a89b8045709 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -825,11 +825,8 @@ class HTMLDoc(Doc):
push(msg)
for name, kind, homecls, value in ok:
base = self.docother(getattr(object, name), name, mod)
- if callable(value) or inspect.isdatadescriptor(value):
- doc = getattr(value, "__doc__", None)
- else:
- doc = None
- if doc is None:
+ doc = getdoc(value)
+ if not doc:
push('- %s
\n' % base)
else:
doc = self.markup(getdoc(value), self.preformat,
@@ -1309,10 +1306,7 @@ location listed above.
hr.maybe()
push(msg)
for name, kind, homecls, value in ok:
- if callable(value) or inspect.isdatadescriptor(value):
- doc = getdoc(value)
- else:
- doc = None
+ doc = getdoc(value)
try:
obj = getattr(object, name)
except AttributeError:
@@ -1448,7 +1442,9 @@ location listed above.
chop = maxlen - len(line)
if chop < 0: repr = repr[:chop] + '...'
line = (name and self.bold(name) + ' = ' or '') + repr
- if doc is not None:
+ if not doc:
+ doc = getdoc(object)
+ if doc:
line += '\n' + self.indent(str(doc))
return line
@@ -1672,7 +1668,8 @@ def render_doc(thing, title='Python Library Documentation: %s', forceload=0,
if not (inspect.ismodule(object) or
inspect.isclass(object) or
inspect.isroutine(object) or
- inspect.isdatadescriptor(object)):
+ inspect.isdatadescriptor(object) or
+ inspect.getdoc(object)):
# If the passed object is a piece of data or an instance,
# document its available methods instead of its value.
object = type(object)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_inspect.py b/Lib/test/test_inspect.py
index f193807e804..2dc8454595e 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_inspect.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_inspect.py
@@ -439,8 +439,7 @@ class TestRetrievingSourceCode(GetSourceBase):
@unittest.skipIf(sys.flags.optimize >= 2,
"Docstrings are omitted with -O2 and above")
def test_getdoc_inherited(self):
- self.assertEqual(inspect.getdoc(mod.FesteringGob),
- 'A longer,\n\nindented\n\ndocstring.')
+ self.assertIsNone(inspect.getdoc(mod.FesteringGob))
self.assertEqual(inspect.getdoc(mod.FesteringGob.abuse),
'Another\n\ndocstring\n\ncontaining\n\ntabs')
self.assertEqual(inspect.getdoc(mod.FesteringGob().abuse),
@@ -448,10 +447,20 @@ class TestRetrievingSourceCode(GetSourceBase):
self.assertEqual(inspect.getdoc(mod.FesteringGob.contradiction),
'The automatic gainsaying.')
+ @unittest.skipIf(MISSING_C_DOCSTRINGS, "test requires docstrings")
+ def test_getowndoc(self):
+ getowndoc = inspect._getowndoc
+ self.assertEqual(getowndoc(type), type.__doc__)
+ self.assertEqual(getowndoc(int), int.__doc__)
+ self.assertEqual(getowndoc(int.to_bytes), int.to_bytes.__doc__)
+ self.assertEqual(getowndoc(int().to_bytes), int.to_bytes.__doc__)
+ self.assertEqual(getowndoc(int.from_bytes), int.from_bytes.__doc__)
+ self.assertEqual(getowndoc(int.real), int.real.__doc__)
+
@unittest.skipIf(MISSING_C_DOCSTRINGS, "test requires docstrings")
def test_finddoc(self):
finddoc = inspect._finddoc
- self.assertEqual(finddoc(int), int.__doc__)
+ self.assertIsNone(finddoc(int))
self.assertEqual(finddoc(int.to_bytes), int.to_bytes.__doc__)
self.assertEqual(finddoc(int().to_bytes), int.to_bytes.__doc__)
self.assertEqual(finddoc(int.from_bytes), int.from_bytes.__doc__)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py b/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
index ebd8d4a6c3d..800913b425a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
@@ -1254,7 +1254,8 @@ cm(x) method of builtins.type instance
X.attr.__doc__ = 'Custom descriptor'
self.assertEqual(self._get_summary_lines(X.attr), """\
-.Descr object>""")
+.Descr object>
+ Custom descriptor""")
X.attr.__name__ = 'foo'
self.assertEqual(self._get_summary_lines(X.attr), """\
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-04-15-19-34-11.bpo-40257.ux8FUr.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-04-15-19-34-11.bpo-40257.ux8FUr.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..52247b2d1a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-04-15-19-34-11.bpo-40257.ux8FUr.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+func:`inspect.getdoc` no longer returns docstring inherited from the type of
+the object or from parent class if it is a class if it is not defined in the
+object itself. In :mod:`pydoc` the documentation string is now shown not
+only for class, function, method etc, but for any object that has its own
+``__doc__`` attribute.