[issue19820] docs are missing info about module attributes

Change by Michael Anckaert : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +15071 stage: needs patch -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/15359 ___ Python tracker

[issue19820] docs are missing info about module attributes

Michael Anckaert added the comment: @emmanuel: thanks for offering your help. I made a first attempt at improving the docs in this branch: https://github.com/MichaelAnckaert/cpython/tree/bpo-19820 -- ___ Python tracker

[issue19820] docs are missing info about module attributes

Emmanuel Arias added the comment: > I can update the docs but I would rely on the comments in Lib/inspect.py on > what to include. Executing inspect.getmembers on a module returns a lot more > attributes than documented in ismodule. I can help too. -- nosy: +eamanu

[issue19820] docs are missing info about module attributes

Eric Snow added the comment: The relevant module attributes are described in the importlib docs: https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.html#importlib.abc.Loader.load_module -- versions: +Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9 -Python 3.3, Python 3.4

[issue19820] docs are missing info about module attributes

Michael Anckaert added the comment: As far as I can tell there is at least some information missing from the 'Types and members' section. Not all attributes are listed in the table. For example the attribute __cached__ is missing from the module type but it is documented in the inspect

[issue19820] docs are missing info about module attributes

M. Anil Tuncel added the comment: Are they still missing? inspect.ismodule() seems to be there at least. https://docs.python.org/3/library/inspect.html -- nosy: +anilbey ___ Python tracker

[issue19820] docs are missing info about module attributes

Changes by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfrever@gmail.com: -- nosy: +Arfrever ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue19820 ___

[issue19820] docs are missing info about module attributes

Changes by Eric Snow ericsnowcurren...@gmail.com: -- keywords: +easy ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue19820 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue19820] docs are missing info about module attributes

New submission from Eric Snow: The docs for the inspect module and the types module do not list all the import-related module attributes. I'm guessing they've been out of sync a while. The docstring for for inspect.ismodule() is likewise missing information. -- assignee: docs@python