*this* set of patches is Ka-Ping's final sweep:
The attached patches update the standard library so that all modules
have docstrings beginning with one-line summaries.
A new docstring was added to formatter. The docstring for os.py
was updated to mention nt, os2, ce in addition to posix, dos, mac.
Hammond: record top-level functions (as Function instances, a simple
subclass of Class). You must use the new interface readmodule_ex() to
get these, though.
__init__.py it isn't read. (Sjoerd just came up with this, so it's
not heavily tested.)
Other (yet unsolved) package problems noted by Sjoerd:
- If you have a package and a module inside that or another package
with the same name, module caching doesn't work properly since the
key is the base name of the module/package.
- The only entry that is returned when you readmodule a package is a
__path__ whose value is a list which confuses certain class browsers
that I wrote. (Hm, this could be construed as a feature.)
appreciably. Triple-quoted strings no longer confuse it, nor nested
classes or defs, nor comments starting in column 1. Chews thru
Tkinter.py in < 3 seconds for me; doctest.py no longer confuses it; no
longer missing methods in PyShell.py; etc. Also captures defs
starting in column 1 now, but ignores them; an interface should be
added so that IDLE's class browser can show the top-level functions
too.
It wasn't hard to speed pyclbr by a factor of 3, and I'll attach an
experimental patch for that (experimental because barely tested). Uncomment
the new "String" stuff and it will deal with strings correctly (pyclbr
currently ignores the possibility), but that slows it down a lot. Still
faster in the end than current pyclbr, but-- frankly --I'd rather have the
dramatic speedup!
Guido van Rossum
Fred Drake
Sjoerd Mullender