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

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

On 7/13/06, Edward Loper <ed...@gr...> wrote:
> 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?

What about creating an extension module of our own (probably it should
be called "epyzoo.so" :D) with a specimen (two in case of Flood) of
the different extension types availablein from the C API?  It could be
used as an addendum to the types module.

That woud have the drawback of requiring a binary distribution on
Windows platforms but i'm about used at that (even if i'm not a w32
user anymore - i moved to Gentoo a few months ago - however i have
some winbox handy to build them)

Daniele