On Wednesday July 28 2010 13:30:38 Kristian Ølgaard wrote: > On 28 July 2010 21:20, Johan Hake <[email protected]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > >> > How would you do that? I tried > >> > > >> > %extend dolfin::GenericVector > >> > { > >> > %pythoncode > >> > %{ > >> > def data(self): > >> > generated_docstring_module.GenericVector.data.__doc__ > >> > return self._data() > >> > %} > >> > } > >> > > >> > But it was only possible to have a "real" string, not a variable that > >> > was a str. Not sure why... > >> > >> Me neither, what I thought about doing was to generate the contents of > >> the *_post.i files from some source and then insert the docstring as a > >> literal string in the *_post.i file. But I decided that was too much > >> work. > >> > >> So what I will end up doing is to assign to the __doc__ members of > >> these functions in the dolfin/__init__.py (on import). This is > >> possible because Swig doesn't mess around with these functions but > >> just adds them to the module. If the *_post.i contains other than > >> simple functions/member functions we'll have to generate the *_post.i > >> files from some source. > > > > Would this work? I tried: > > > > class A(object): > > def jada(self):pass > > > > A.jada.__doc__ = "jada" > > > > but I got > > > > attribute '__doc__' of 'instancemethod' objects is not writable > > Yes, the trick is to do: > > A.__dict__["jada"].__doc__ = "jada" > > So we just loop all classes in cpp and their dicts and try to assign > to __doc__, if we can't we'll assume that it is handled by the > docstrings.i. All other classes and functions in our Python layer have > correct docstrings by construction. > > > I am still on vacation, which mean that I have been away from coding a > > bit so my Python is a bit rusty ;) > > You're not much help then are you? ;)
Obviously not! :D > Enjoy whatever remains of you holiday, looking forward to seeing you > back, more frequently, on the list. I'll be back! Johan _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~fenics Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~fenics More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
