Re: [Epydoc-devel] epydoc 2.1 can't handle PyGetSetDefs?

[Edward L. <ed...@gr...>]

On Jul 10, 2006, at 3:12 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> It appears that epydoc cannot handle class attributes
> defined in extension modules with PyGetSetDef.  We define almost all
> of our attributes this way and all I get are things like
>
> getset_descriptor | alias_limit = <attribute 'alias_limit' of '...'
>
> This even though alias_limit's PyGetSetDef structure contains a
> docstring and in fact you can get the __doc__ of that descriptor just
> fine.

Thanks to Daniele for providing a quick patch to address this.  One  
question that came up in that patch, though, is what the best way is  
to get at the getset_descriptor type.  I suggested the following  
(which I found via google):

 >>> print type(types.FunctionType.__dict__.get('__dict__'))
<type 'getset_descriptor'>

But this seems to be an implementation detail of FunctionType, that's  
subject to change in the future.  It doesn't look like the  
getset_descriptor type is accessible via the types module.  So any  
suggestions on what the best way to get at this type is?

-Edward