[Python-Dev] Sharing docstrings between the Python and C implementations of a module

[Glenn Linderman]

On 4/15/2013 4:21 PM, Larry Hastings wrote:
> On 04/15/2013 09:31 AM, Eli Bendersky wrote:
>> Would it make sense to think about adding this in the scope of the 
>> argument clinic work, or is it too unrelated? This seems like a 
>> commonly needed thing for large parts of the stdlib (where the C 
>> accelerator overrides Python code).
>
> From my perspective, the C accelerator doesn't override the Python 
> code; the Python code is in charge, and elects to call the C accelerator.
>
> To answer your question, Clinic could help but I think it'd kind of 
> suck.  We'd have to use Clinic to preprocess the .py file and copy the 
> docstring there, which would mean slurping in the C file. Clumsy but 
> workable.  We can talk about it once I finish the revised 
> implementation, which should make processes like this much easier.

Since Clinic is mostly aimed at making C usage work with python, isn't 
the above backwards? Wouldn't it be better to have Clinic slurp in the 
Python code to find the docstrings, and then put them in the C code? 
Then no need to preprocess the python file, just read it to obtain the 
docstrings. You are already preprocessing the C code...
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