Joel Goldstick <joel.goldst...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > > On 9/17/2012 10:03 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > >> Where can I find a standard implementation of the docstring parsing > >> and splitting algorithm from PEP 257? > > Do you know about pydoc? I haven't looked at its source, but since it > does a great job of printing documentation from docstrings it might > contain what you need
Yes, I have now learned about the ‘pydoc’ module following the lead from investigating the interactive interpreter's ‘help’ function <URL:http://docs.python.org/library/pydoc.html>. The ‘pydoc.splitdoc’ function, though not documented in the library documentation, does what I need. It takes a docstring as input, and returns a tuple of (synopsis, description). Thanks to everyone who helped. -- \ “Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. | `\ “Don't bother us with politics,” respond those who don't want | _o__) to learn.” —Richard Stallman, 2002 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
