Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Lib In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv19132 Modified Files: pydoc.py Log Message: Use getdoc(object) instead of object.__doc__ to fix indentation problems. Thanks to Robert Dick <dickrp@ece.northwestern.edu> for reporting this bug and submitting a patch. Adjust doc(object) to display useful documentation for plain values (e.g. help([]) now shows the methods on the list instead of just printing "[]"). (This change has been tested interactively, by generating docs for the standard library, and by running the module documentation webserver.) Index: pydoc.py =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Lib/pydoc.py,v retrieving revision 1.103 retrieving revision 1.104 diff -u -d -r1.103 -r1.104 --- pydoc.py 6 Feb 2005 06:57:07 -0000 1.103 +++ pydoc.py 19 Feb 2005 22:58:26 -0000 1.104 @@ -886,7 +886,7 @@ if name: push('<dl><dt><strong>%s</strong></dt>\n' % name) if value.__doc__ is not None: - doc = self.markup(value.__doc__, self.preformat) + doc = self.markup(getdoc(value), self.preformat) push('<dd><tt>%s</tt></dd>\n' % doc) push('</dl>\n') @@ -1160,7 +1160,7 @@ push(msg) for name, kind, homecls, value in ok: if callable(value) or inspect.isdatadescriptor(value): - doc = getattr(value, "__doc__", None) + doc = getdoc(value) else: doc = None push(self.docother(getattr(object, name), @@ -1454,6 +1454,14 @@ desc += ' in ' + name[:name.rfind('.')] elif module and module is not object: desc += ' in module ' + module.__name__ + if not (inspect.ismodule(object) or + inspect.isclass(object) or + inspect.isroutine(object) or + isinstance(object, property)): + # If the passed object is a piece of data or an instance, + # document its available methods instead of its value. + object = type(object) + desc += ' object' pager(title % desc + '\n\n' + text.document(object, name)) except (ImportError, ErrorDuringImport), value: print value