Re: [Epydoc-devel] turn off documentation of __new__, __repr__, etc.

[Daniele V. <dan...@gm...>]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 4:06 PM, John Dennis <jd...@re...> wrote:
> I currently use epydoc for a CPython extension module (i.e. it's
> entirely written in C). Epydoc seems to always want to include
> documentation for things like __new__, __repr__, __str__, etc that
> really should be hidden from the user. The only thing the doc says is
> "Overrides: object.__repr__". It just clutters up the doc obscuring the
> important documentation.

Hi,

can't remember if there's a switch to disable "magic" methods as it's
a long time I'm not using Epydoc. But maybe using --inheritance=listed
could reduce the clutter, as the docstrings you see are the ones
defined on "object".

-- Daniele