Inheriting methods but over-riding docstrings

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:44:09 -0300, Michele Simionato  
<michele.simionato at gmail.com> escribió:
> On Jan 16, 6:55 pm, Steven D'Aprano <st... at REMOVE-THIS-
> cybersource.com.au> wrote:

>> I have a series of subclasses that inherit methods from a base class,  
>> but
>> I'd like them to have their own individual docstrings.
>
> from types import FunctionType, CodeType
>
> def newfunc(func, docstring):
>     c = func.func_code
>     nc = CodeType(c.co_argcount, c.co_nlocals, c.co_stacksize,
>                   c.co_flags, c.co_code, c.co_consts, c.co_names,
>                   c.co_varnames, c.co_filename, func.__name__,
>                   c.co_firstlineno, c.co_lnotab, c.co_freevars,
>                   c.co_cellvars)
>     nf = FunctionType(nc, func.func_globals, func.__name__)
>     nf.__doc__ = docstring
>     return nf
>
> def setdocstring(method, docstring):
>     cls = method.im_class
>     basefunc = getattr(super(cls, cls), method.__name__).im_func
>     setattr(cls, method.__name__, newfunc(basefunc, docstring))
>
> class B(object):
>     def m(self):
>         "base"
>         return 'ok'
>
> class C(B):
>     pass
>
> setdocstring(C.m, 'C.m docstring')

This is basically the same technique as in  
<http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/651001> but there is  
a difference: you clone the function object *and* the code object it is  
based on. As I understand it, code objects are immutable and there is no  
need to clone them, but I may be wrong. Why did you feel the need to clone  
the code object too?

-- 
Gabriel Genellina