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authorRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2011-01-19 04:14:34 (GMT)
committerRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2011-01-19 04:14:34 (GMT)
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Add examples for inspect.
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@@ -742,7 +742,7 @@ functools
(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger.)
-* To aid in porting programs from Python 2, the :func:`~functools.cmp_to_key`
+* To aid in porting programs from Python 2, the :func:`functools.cmp_to_key`
function converts an old-style comparison function to
modern :term:`key function`:
@@ -758,7 +758,7 @@ itertools
---------
* The :mod:`itertools` module has a new :func:`~itertools.accumulate` function
- modeled on APL's *scan* operator and on Numpy's *accumulate* function:
+ modeled on APL's *scan* operator and Numpy's *accumulate* function:
>>> list(accumulate(8, 2, 50))
[8, 10, 60]
@@ -1372,14 +1372,41 @@ inspect
* The :mod:`inspect` module has a new function
:func:`~inspect.getgeneratorstate` to easily identify the current state of a
- generator as one of ``GEN_CREATED``, ``GEN_RUNNING``, ``GEN_SUSPENDED`` or
- ``GEN_CLOSED``. (Contributed by Rodolpho Eckhardt and Nick Coghlan,
- :issue:`10220`.)
+ generator as one of *GEN_CREATED*, *GEN_RUNNING*, *GEN_SUSPENDED* or
+ *GEN_CLOSED*::
+
+ >>> def gen():
+ yield 'one'
+ yield 'two'
+ >>> g = gen()
+ >>> inspect.getgeneratorstate(g)
+ 'GEN_CREATED'
+ >>> next(g)
+ 'one'
+ >>> inspect.getgeneratorstate(g)
+ 'GEN_SUSPENDED'
+
+ (Contributed by Rodolpho Eckhardt and Nick Coghlan, :issue:`10220`.)
* To support lookups without the possibility of activating a dynamic attribute,
the :mod:`inspect` module has a new function, :func:`~inspect.getattr_static`.
Unlike :func:`hasattr`, this is a true read-only search, guaranteed not to
- change state while it is searching. (Contributed by Michael Foord.)
+ change state while it is searching::
+
+ >>> class A:
+ @property
+ def f(self):
+ print('Running')
+ return 10
+
+ >>> a = A()
+ >>> getattr(a, 'f')
+ Running
+ 10
+ >>> inspect.getattr_static(a, 'f')
+ <property object at 0x1022bd788>
+
+ (Contributed by Michael Foord.)
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