inspect.py, and pydoc.py. Specifically, this allows for querying the type of
an object against these built-in C types and more importantly, for getting
their docstrings printed in the interactive interpreter's help() function.
This patch includes a new built-in module called _types which provides
definitions of getset and member descriptors for use by the types.py module.
These types are exposed as types.GetSetDescriptorType and
types.MemberDescriptorType. Query functions are provided as
inspect.isgetsetdescriptor() and inspect.ismemberdescriptor(). The
implementations of these are robust enough to work with Python implementations
other than CPython, which may not have these fundamental types.
The patch also includes documentation and test suite updates.
I commit these changes now under these guiding principles:
1. Silence is assent. The release manager has not said "no", and of the few
people that cared enough to respond to the thread, the worst vote was "0".
2. It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
3. It's so dang easy to revert stuff in svn, that you could view this as a
forcing function. :)
Windows build patches will follow.
etc., had comments after the colon, and some other cases. This patch
take a simpler approach that doesn't rely on looking for a ':'. Thanks
Simon Percivall!
more. Thanks to Simon Percivall!
The patch makes changes to inspect.py in two places:
* the pattern to match against functions at line 436 is
modified: lambdas should be matched even if not
preceded by whitespace, as long as "lambda" isn't part
of another word.
* the BlockFinder class is heavily modified. Changes are:
- checking for "def", "class" or "lambda" names
before setting self.started to True. Then checking the
same line for word characters after the colon (if the
colon is on that line). If so, and the line does not
end with a line continuation marker, raise EndOfBlock
immediately.
- adding self.passline to show that the line is to be
included and no more checking is necessary on that
line. Since a NEWLINE token is not generated when a
line continuation marker exists, this allows getsource
to continue with these functions even if the following
line would not be indented.
Also add a bunch of
'quite-unlikely-to-occur-in-real-life-but-working-anyway' tests.
displaying a set of classes from one module it doesn't matter, but if you
are displaying a large class tree from multiple modules it improves the
display to sort by module.name.
reached through a symlink (was comparing path of module to path to function and
were not matching because of the symlink). os.path.realpath() is now used to
solve this discrepency.
Closes bug #570300. Thanks Johannes Gijsbers for the fix.
Benjamin Peterson
Georg Brandl
Mark Dickinson
Michael Foord
R. David Murray
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
Brett Cannon
Christian Heimes
Facundo Batista
Raymond Hettinger
Nick Coghlan
Tim Peters
Barry Warsaw
Phillip J. Eby
Neal Norwitz
Armin Rigo
Johannes Gijsbers
Skip Montanaro
Matthias Klose
Andrew M. Kuchling
Jeremy Hylton