New submission from Serhiy Storchaka:
Here are lists of special names used in Python core and the stdlib, but absent
in documentation index.
Module level names used in pydoc:
__author__
__credits__
__date__
__version__
Module level name used in doctest:
__test__
Other module level names:
__about__ (heapq only)
__copyright__ (many modules)
__cvsid__ (tarfile only)
__docformat__ (doctest only)
__email__ (test_with and test_keywordonlyarg only)
__libmpdec_version__ (decimal only)
__status__ (logging only)
type attributes (mostly used in tests):
__abstractmethods__ (used in abc, functools)
__base__
__basicsize__
__dictoffset__
__flags__ (used in inspect, copyreg)
__itemsize__
__weakrefoffset__
super() attributes:
__self_class__
__thisclass__
Used in sqlite:
__adapt__
__conform__
Used in ctypes:
__ctype_be__
__ctype_le__
__ctypes_from_outparam__
Used in unittest:
__unittest_expecting_failure__
__unittest_skip__
__unittest_skip_why__
float methods, for testing:
__getformat__
__setformat__
Used in IDLE RPC:
__attributes__
__methods__
Others:
__alloc__ (bytearray method)
__args__ (used in bdb)
__build_class__ (builtins function, used in eval loop)
__builtins__ (module attribute)
__decimal_context__ (used in decimal)
__exception__ (used in pdb)
__getinitargs__ (used in pickle, datetime)
__initializing__ (used in importlib)
__isabstractmethod__ (function/method/descriptor attribute, used in abc,
functools, types)
__ltrace__ (used in eval loop, never set)
__members__ (Enum attribute, used in many modules)
__mp_main__ (used in multiprocessing)
__new_member__ (Enum attribute, used in enum internally)
__newobj__ (copyreg function, used in pickle,
object.__reduce_ex__)
__newobj_ex__ (copyreg function, used in pickle,
object.__reduce_ex__)
__objclass__ (descriptor/enum attribute, used in inspect, pydoc,
doctest, multiprocessing)
__prepare__ (metaclass method, used in
builtins.__build_class__, types)
__pycache__ (cache directory name)
__return__ (used in pdb)
__signature__ (used in inspect, never set)
__sizeof__ (standard method, used in sys.getsizeof)
__slotnames__ (used in object.__getstate__ for caching)
__text_signature__ (function/method/descriptor attribute, used in
inspect)
__trunc__ (used in math.trunc, int, etc)
__warningregistry__ (used in warnings)
__weakref__ (used in weakref)
__wrapped__ (used in inspect, functools, contextlib, asyncio)
Needed a patch or a set of patches that will add theses names to the index and
document them if they are not documented.
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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation
messages: 237859
nosy: docs@python, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, georg.brandl, serhiy.storchaka
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Not documented special names
versions: Python 3.4, Python 3.5
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