New submission from John Mark Vandenberg: inspect.getdoc's helper _finddoc raises an AttributeError on encountering a property, which is silently discarded.
>>> class Foo(object): ... @property ... def foo(self): ... """foobar.""" ... return 'foo' ... >>> class Bar(Foo): ... @property ... def foo(self): ... return 'bar' ... >>> import inspect >>> inspect.getdoc(Foo.foo) 'foobar.' >>> inspect.getdoc(Bar.foo) >>> How I came upon this was doing static code analysis, and the f.fget on line 522 here looks very wrong. http://bugs.python.org/review/15582/diff/14140/Lib/inspect.py This code dedicated to supporting `property` does not work because of that, but also because a property is also a data descriptor so the 'property' branch is never executed. >>> inspect.isdatadescriptor(property()) True ---------- components: Library (Lib) files: getdoc-property.diff keywords: patch messages: 253653 nosy: John.Mark.Vandenberg priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: inspect.getdoc does find inherited property __doc__ type: behavior versions: Python 3.5, Python 3.6 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file40885/getdoc-property.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25503> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
