point out, pydoc doesn't tell you where class attributes were defined,
gets several new 2.2 features wrong, and isn't aware of some new features
checked in on Thursday <wink>. pydoc is hampered in part because
inspect.py has the same limitations. Alas, I can't think of a way to
fix this within the current architecture of inspect/pydoc: it's simply
not possible in 2.2 to figure out everything needed just from examining
the object you get back from class.attr. You also need the class
context, and the method resolution order, and tests against various things
that simply didn't exist before. OTOH, knowledge of how to do that is
getting quite complex, so doesn't belong in pydoc.
classify_class_attrs takes a different approach, analyzing all
the class attrs "at once", and returning the most interesting stuff for
each, all in one gulp. pydoc needs to be reworked to use this for
classes (instead of the current "filter dir(class) umpteen times against
assorted predicates" approach).
easy for 2.2 new-style classes, but trickier for classic classes, and
different approaches are needed "depending". The function will allow
later code to treat all flavors of classes uniformly.
Tim Peters
Ka-Ping Yee