Factor out docstring dedenting from inspect.getdoc() into inspect.cleandoc()

to ease standalone use of the algorithm.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/inspect.py b/Lib/inspect.py
index b492514..ad94ad1 100644
--- a/Lib/inspect.py
+++ b/Lib/inspect.py
@@ -368,6 +368,13 @@ def getdoc(object):
         return None
     if not isinstance(doc, types.StringTypes):
         return None
+    return cleandoc(doc)
+
+def cleandoc(doc):
+    """Clean up indentation from docstrings.
+
+    Any whitespace that can be uniformly removed from the second line
+    onwards is removed."""
     try:
         lines = string.split(string.expandtabs(doc), '\n')
     except UnicodeError: