[Doc-SIG] Sort order in pythondoc

[Konrad Hinsen]

> It should be possible if you believe the reference manual, 
> where in chapter "3.2 - The standard type hierarchy", where 
> you can read under "Internal types" -> "Code objects" (second
> paragraph):
...

Indeed, that works. Here is my code to extract a sort index:

    def sort_index(self):
        """Returns a line number from the object's definition in the
        source code module, used to have the documentation use the
        same order as the source code within one type of object."""
        import types
        t = type(self.__object)
        if t is types.FunctionType:
            return self.__object.func_code.co_firstlineno
        elif t is types.MethodType or t is types.UnboundMethodType:
            return self.__object.im_func.func_code.co_firstlineno
        elif t is types.ClassType:
            for att in self.__object.__dict__.values():
                if type(att) is types.FunctionType:
                    return att.func_code.co_firstlineno
        raise ValueError, "no sort index defined"

Konrad.
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