[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-472347 ] pydoc and properties (original) (raw)

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Bugs item #472347, was opened at 2001-10-17 23:54 You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=472347&group_id=5470

Category: Type/class unification Group: Python 2.2

Status: Closed Resolution: Fixed Priority: 5 Submitted By: Roeland Rengelink (rengelink) Assigned to: Tim Peters (tim_one) Summary: pydoc and properties

Initial Comment: pydoc in server mode throws an error when parsing the attached module. From the command line documentation is shown correctly.

The problem seems to be in HTMLDoc.spillproperties(). Replacing:

base = self.document(func, name + tag, mod, funcs, classes, mdict, object)

with:

base = self.document(func, name+tag, mod)

seems to solve this. This is also more in line with TextDoc.spillproperties()

Comment By: Tim Peters (timone) Date: 2001-10-18 12:59

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Fixed in

Lib/pydoc.py; new revision: 1.55 Lib/test/pydocfodder.py; new revision: 1.3

simply by making GUI-mode .docother() ignore excess arguments. Property functions are usually methods or functions, not arbitrary callables, so usually go thru .docroutine(), which wants all these arguments. .docother() has no use for them, but shouldn't blow up just because its caller N levels back couldn't guess that .docother() would eventually get called.

Comment By: Tim Peters (tim_one) Date: 2001-10-18 09:25

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Assigned to me. The HTML flavor of .document() uses the extra arguments to figure out if any words in the generated docs should be turned into hyperlinks; that's irrelevant to the text-mode flavor; so, whatever the true cause, the correct cure probably isn't just to give up in HTML mode.

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