Bug 735152 - Python: Allow undocumented "cls" parameter for class methods

Made 'cls' parameter analogous to the 'self' parameter. See also https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008 (paragraph: Function and method arguments)

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/pyscanner.l b/src/pyscanner.l
index 1ccb943..c73e7dc 100644
--- a/src/pyscanner.l
+++ b/src/pyscanner.l
@@ -745,7 +745,7 @@ STARTDOCSYMS      "##"
 
 <SearchMemVars>{
     "self."{IDENTIFIER}/{B}"=" {
-                        DBG_CTX((stderr,"Found member variable %s in %s at %d\n",&yytext[5],current_root->name.data(),yyLineNr));
+                        DBG_CTX((stderr,"Found instance method variable %s in %s at %d\n",&yytext[5],current_root->name.data(),yyLineNr));
 			current->name=&yytext[5];
 			current->section=Entry::VARIABLE_SEC;
 			current->fileName  = yyFileName;
@@ -762,6 +762,24 @@ STARTDOCSYMS      "##"
 			}
 			newEntry();
                       }
+    "cls."{IDENTIFIER}/{B}"=" {
+                        DBG_CTX((stderr,"Found class method variable %s in %s at %d\n",&yytext[4],current_root->name.data(),yyLineNr));
+			current->name=&yytext[4];
+			current->section=Entry::VARIABLE_SEC;
+			current->fileName  = yyFileName;
+			current->startLine = yyLineNr;
+			current->bodyLine  = yyLineNr;
+			current->type.resize(0);
+			if (current->name.at(0)=='_') // mark as private
+			{
+			  current->protection=Private;
+			}
+			else
+			{
+			  current->protection=Public;
+			}
+			newEntry();
+                      }
     {TRIDOUBLEQUOTE}  { // start of a comment block
 			initTriDoubleQuoteBlock();
 			BEGIN(TripleComment);