From a2e2dbe8cda41d5c612d41acad2fe5cfb841402e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 02:19:49 +0000
Subject: Improve handling of docstrings. I had feared this was a case of
introspection incompatibility, but in fact it's just that calltips always
gave up on a docstring that started with a newline (but didn't realize they
were giving up <wink>).
---
Tools/idle/CallTips.py | 15 ++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Tools/idle/CallTips.py b/Tools/idle/CallTips.py
index 7c5f41c..0a9eb30 100644
--- a/Tools/idle/CallTips.py
+++ b/Tools/idle/CallTips.py
@@ -143,11 +143,16 @@ def get_arg_text(ob):
except:
pass
# See if we can use the docstring
- if hasattr(ob, "__doc__") and ob.__doc__:
- pos = string.find(ob.__doc__, "\n")
- if pos<0 or pos>70: pos=70
- if argText: argText = argText + "\n"
- argText = argText + ob.__doc__[:pos]
+ doc = getattr(ob, "__doc__", "")
+ if doc:
+ while doc[:1] in " \t\n":
+ doc = doc[1:]
+ pos = doc.find("\n")
+ if pos < 0 or pos > 70:
+ pos = 70
+ if argText:
+ argText += "\n"
+ argText += doc[:pos]
return argText
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