Barry Warsaw 00decd7835 Patch #1520294: Support for getset and member descriptors in types.py, ... inspect.py, and pydoc.py. Specifically, this allows for querying the type of an object against these built-in C types and more importantly, for getting their docstrings printed in the interactive interpreter's help() function. This patch includes a new built-in module called _types which provides definitions of getset and member descriptors for use by the types.py module. These types are exposed as types.GetSetDescriptorType and types.MemberDescriptorType. Query functions are provided as inspect.isgetsetdescriptor() and inspect.ismemberdescriptor(). The implementations of these are robust enough to work with Python implementations other than CPython, which may not have these fundamental types. The patch also includes documentation and test suite updates. I commit these changes now under these guiding principles: 1. Silence is assent. The release manager has not said "no", and of the few people that cared enough to respond to the thread, the worst vote was "0". 2. It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. 3. It's so dang easy to revert stuff in svn, that you could view this as a forcing function. :) Windows build patches will follow.		2006-07-27 23:43:15 +00:00
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sqlite3	Text files missing the SVN eol-style property.	2006-05-16 23:24:08 +00:00
archiving.tex	Add some chapter introductions (not linked into the LibRef yet)	2005-12-22 20:12:39 +00:00
asttable.tex	George Yoshida points out that the special characters	2006-02-28 17:46:48 +00:00
caseless.py
compiler.tex	More \exception fixes.	2006-03-17 16:26:31 +00:00
custominterp.tex	Add more chapter intros	2005-12-22 20:27:43 +00:00
datatypes.tex	Add some chapter introductions (not linked into the LibRef yet)	2005-12-22 20:12:39 +00:00
development.tex	Add more chapter intros	2005-12-22 20:27:43 +00:00
distutils.tex
email-dir.py	Merge email package 4.0 from the sandbox, including documentation, test cases,	2006-03-18 15:41:53 +00:00
email-mime.py	Merge email package 4.0 from the sandbox, including documentation, test cases,	2006-03-18 15:41:53 +00:00
email-simple.py	Merge email package 4.0 from the sandbox, including documentation, test cases,	2006-03-18 15:41:53 +00:00
email-unpack.py	Merge email package 4.0 from the sandbox, including documentation, test cases,	2006-03-18 15:41:53 +00:00
email.tex	More RFC 2231 improvements for the email 4.0 package. As Mark Sapiro rightly	2006-07-21 14:51:07 +00:00
emailcharsets.tex	Merge email package 4.0 from the sandbox, including documentation, test cases,	2006-03-18 15:41:53 +00:00
emailencoders.tex	Merge email package 4.0 from the sandbox, including documentation, test cases,	2006-03-18 15:41:53 +00:00
emailexc.tex	Merge email package 4.0 from the sandbox, including documentation, test cases,	2006-03-18 15:41:53 +00:00
emailgenerator.tex	Merge email package 4.0 from the sandbox, including documentation, test cases,	2006-03-18 15:41:53 +00:00
emailheaders.tex	Merge email package 4.0 from the sandbox, including documentation, test cases,	2006-03-18 15:41:53 +00:00
emailiter.tex	Merge email package 4.0 from the sandbox, including documentation, test cases,	2006-03-18 15:41:53 +00:00
emailmessage.tex	Merge email package 4.0 from the sandbox, including documentation, test cases,	2006-03-18 15:41:53 +00:00
emailmimebase.tex	Merge email package 4.0 from the sandbox, including documentation, test cases,	2006-03-18 15:41:53 +00:00
emailparser.tex	Merge email package 4.0 from the sandbox, including documentation, test cases,	2006-03-18 15:41:53 +00:00
emailutil.tex	Merge email package 4.0 from the sandbox, including documentation, test cases,	2006-03-18 15:41:53 +00:00
fileformats.tex	Add some chapter introductions (not linked into the LibRef yet)	2005-12-22 20:12:39 +00:00
filesys.tex	Add some chapter introductions (not linked into the LibRef yet)	2005-12-22 20:12:39 +00:00
frameworks.tex	Add more chapter intros	2005-12-22 20:27:43 +00:00
i18n.tex	Add some chapter introductions (not linked into the LibRef yet)	2005-12-22 20:12:39 +00:00
internet.tex
ipc.tex	Add some chapter introductions (not linked into the LibRef yet)	2005-12-22 20:12:39 +00:00
language.tex	Typo fix	2005-12-22 18:55:43 +00:00
lib.tex	If binhex is higher-level than binascii, it should come first in the chapter	2006-07-27 19:12:49 +00:00
libaifc.tex
libal.tex
liballos.tex
libamoeba.tex
libanydbm.tex
libarray.tex	More \exception fixes.	2006-03-17 16:26:31 +00:00
libascii.tex
libast.tex	fix sectioning: cannot skip section levels	2006-03-31 05:28:38 +00:00
libasynchat.tex
libasyncore.tex	fixed example:	2006-01-17 21:31:31 +00:00
libatexit.tex
libaudioop.tex	SF [ 1231053 ] audioop - alaw encoding/decoding added, code updated	2006-03-20 05:21:58 +00:00
libbase64.tex	Add example	2006-07-27 22:49:54 +00:00
libbasehttp.tex	Patch #1417555: SimpleHTTPServer now returns Last-Modified headers.	2006-02-17 13:34:16 +00:00
libbastion.tex
libbinascii.tex	Mention base64 module; rewrite last sentence to be more positive	2006-07-27 19:11:07 +00:00
libbinhex.tex
libbisect.tex
libbltin.tex
libbsddb.tex	minor documentation cleanup. mention the bsddb.db interface explicitly by name.	2006-06-15 09:23:52 +00:00
libbz2.tex
libcalendar.tex	Make firstweekday a simple attribute instead	2006-04-01 20:40:23 +00:00
libcd.tex
libcfgparser.tex
libcgi.tex	More \exception fixes.	2006-03-17 16:26:31 +00:00
libcgihttp.tex
libcgitb.tex
libchunk.tex
libcmath.tex
libcmd.tex	Remove dots in \version{changed,added} argument and	2006-01-15 07:55:35 +00:00
libcmp.tex
libcmpcache.tex
libcode.tex
libcodecs.tex	Correct the grammar	2006-04-21 16:34:17 +00:00
libcodeop.tex	avoid ugly markup based on the unfortunate conversions of ">>" and "<<" to	2006-05-03 02:04:40 +00:00
libcollections.tex	Typo fixes	2006-04-22 15:10:49 +00:00
libcolorsys.tex
libcommands.tex
libcompileall.tex
libconsts.tex
libcontextlib.tex	Get rid of a couple more context object references, fix some markup and clarify what happens when a generator context function swallows an exception.	2006-05-03 13:17:49 +00:00
libcookie.tex	Correct typos and markup errors (Raymond, thanks for texcheck)	2006-01-23 21:33:03 +00:00
libcookielib.tex	Fix RFC number.	2006-07-07 08:15:12 +00:00
libcopy.tex	- Patch 1433928:	2006-02-25 22:38:04 +00:00
libcopyreg.tex
libcrypt.tex
libcrypto.tex	Update text	2005-12-22 19:38:57 +00:00
libcsv.tex	Change the example classes UnicodeReader and UnicodeWriter so	2006-04-04 17:32:49 +00:00
libctypes.tex	Updates for the ctypes documentation.	2006-07-14 18:22:50 +00:00
libcurses.tex
libcursespanel.tex	Bug #1484978: curses.panel: clarify that Panel objects are destroyed on garbage collection.	2006-05-10 16:11:44 +00:00
libdatetime.tex	Bug #1459103: add inter-section links for strftime section.	2006-03-28 12:48:43 +00:00
libdbhash.tex
libdbm.tex
libdecimal.tex	Fix two small errors in argument lists.	2006-05-10 20:09:23 +00:00
libdifflib.tex	SequenceMatcher.get_matching_blocks(): This now guarantees that	2006-06-14 04:09:25 +00:00
libdircache.tex
libdis.tex	one more place to avoid extra markup (how many will there be?)	2006-05-03 02:29:09 +00:00
libdl.tex	Correct typos and markup errors (Raymond, thanks for texcheck)	2006-01-23 21:33:03 +00:00
libdoctest.tex	Remove doctest.testmod's deprecated (in 2.4) isprivate	2006-06-05 01:43:03 +00:00
libdocxmlrpc.tex
libdumbdbm.tex
libdummythread.tex
libdummythreading.tex
liberrno.tex
libetree.tex	Patch #1504046: Add documentation for xml.etree.	2006-07-10 02:36:41 +00:00
libexcs.tex	Document ImportWarning	2006-05-16 18:26:10 +00:00
libfcntl.tex
libfilecmp.tex
libfileinput.tex	Fix typpo.	2006-02-19 20:08:18 +00:00
libfl.tex
libfm.tex
libfnmatch.tex
libformatter.tex
libfpectl.tex
libfpformat.tex
libftplib.tex
libfuncs.tex	no need to elaborate "string".	2006-07-05 15:50:05 +00:00
libfunctools.tex	Add functools.update_wrapper() and functools.wraps() as described in PEP 356	2006-06-08 13:54:49 +00:00
libfuture.tex	Typo	2006-01-22 16:11:01 +00:00
libgc.tex	Markup fix	2006-03-17 15:56:13 +00:00
libgdbm.tex
libgetopt.tex	add missing version identification	2006-01-20 03:30:36 +00:00
libgetpass.tex	Use \versionchanged instead of \versionadded for new parameter support.	2006-04-30 03:49:56 +00:00
libgettext.tex	Patch #1349274: gettext.install() now optionally installs additional	2006-02-19 13:26:36 +00:00
libgl.tex
libglob.tex
libgopherlib.tex	Add deprecation notices to modules deprecated since 2000.	2006-02-17 11:18:58 +00:00
libgrp.tex	patch [ 1274630 ] documentation fixes	2005-08-27 17:04:58 +00:00
libgzip.tex
libhashlib.tex	Grammar fix	2006-04-02 01:47:38 +00:00
libheapq.tex
libhmac.tex	[ sf.net patch # 1121611 ]	2005-08-21 18:45:59 +00:00
libhotshot.tex	Added the cProfile module.	2006-02-08 12:53:56 +00:00
libhtmllib.tex
libhtmlparser.tex	avoid ugly markup based on the unfortunate conversions of ">>" and "<<" to	2006-05-03 02:04:40 +00:00
libhttplib.tex	Move "httpresponses" dict from urllib2 to httplib where it belongs.	2006-02-17 19:17:25 +00:00
libimageop.tex
libimaplib.tex	Add versionadded note for new methods	2006-02-07 07:23:26 +00:00
libimgfile.tex
libimghdr.tex
libimp.tex
libinspect.tex	Patch #1520294: Support for getset and member descriptors in types.py,	2006-07-27 23:43:15 +00:00
libintro.tex
libitertools.tex	Guarantee evaluation order for izip(). Document its creative uses and its limitations.	2006-03-26 01:41:25 +00:00
libjpeg.tex
libkeyword.tex
liblinecache.tex	Forgot to mark up a PEP reference	2006-04-11 01:15:28 +00:00
liblocale.tex	Patch #1180296: improve locale string formatting functions	2006-05-17 15:51:16 +00:00
liblogging.tex	markup fix	2006-07-20 20:11:57 +00:00
libmailbox.tex	Reword paragraph	2006-07-27 22:40:05 +00:00
libmailcap.tex
libmain.tex
libmarshal.tex
libmath.tex
libmd5.tex	[ 1388141 ] Minor error in md5 docs	2005-12-22 16:15:00 +00:00
libmhlib.tex
libmimetools.tex
libmimetypes.tex	Add example	2006-07-27 22:49:38 +00:00
libmimewriter.tex
libmimify.tex
libmisc.tex
libmm.tex
libmmap.tex	Patch #1407135, bug #1424041, make mmap.mmap(-1, length) work the same	2006-02-05 05:45:43 +00:00
libmodulefinder.tex	added a few missing \versionadded{2.3} tags	2006-01-11 00:14:29 +00:00
libmsilib.tex	Correct some formulations, fix XXX comments.	2006-05-03 04:52:04 +00:00
libmsvcrt.tex
libmultifile.tex	Document "multifile" as deprecated.	2006-02-21 19:23:49 +00:00
libmutex.tex
libnetrc.tex
libnew.tex	SF bug #1323294, Minor error in the Library Reference doc. Will backport	2005-10-11 03:23:45 +00:00
libni.tex
libnis.tex	Patch #1422385: Changes to nis module to support multiple NIS domains	2006-02-04 19:12:37 +00:00
libnntplib.tex	More \exception fixes.	2006-03-17 16:26:31 +00:00
libobjs.tex
liboperator.tex	avoid ugly markup based on the unfortunate conversions of ">>" and "<<" to	2006-05-03 02:04:40 +00:00
liboptparse.tex	Resync optparse with Optik 1.5.3: minor tweaks for/to tests.	2006-07-23 16:05:51 +00:00
libos.tex	Correct implementation and documentation of os.confstr. Add a simple test	2006-04-20 01:29:48 +00:00
libossaudiodev.tex	More \exception fixes.	2006-03-17 16:26:31 +00:00
libpanel.tex
libparser.tex
libpdb.tex	Grammar fix	2006-05-11 15:53:27 +00:00
libpickle.tex	Bug #1102649: add a note to pickle docs that pickle files should be	2006-02-20 13:12:02 +00:00
libpickletools.tex	added a few missing \versionadded{2.3} tags	2006-01-11 00:14:29 +00:00
libpipes.tex	Correct misspellings.	2006-01-23 22:00:17 +00:00
libpkgutil.tex
libplatform.tex
libpopen2.tex
libpoplib.tex	bug [ 1252706 ] poplib list() docstring fix (and docs too)	2005-08-05 21:01:58 +00:00
libposix.tex
libposixfile.tex
libposixpath.tex	Bug #1475009: clarify ntpath.join behavior with absolute components	2006-04-28 16:36:55 +00:00
libpprint.tex	pprint functions used to sort a dict (by key) if and only if	2006-06-02 23:22:51 +00:00
libprofile.tex	Bug #1482988: indicate more prominently that the Stats class is in the pstats module.	2006-05-10 15:59:06 +00:00
libpty.tex
libpwd.tex
libpyclbr.tex
libpycompile.tex	More \exception fixes.	2006-03-17 16:26:31 +00:00
libpydoc.tex
libpyexpat.tex	Patch #1377848: typo in pyexpat docs	2005-12-16 19:23:33 +00:00
libpython.tex
libqueue.tex	SF Patch #1455676: Simplify using Queues with daemon consumer threads	2006-03-24 20:43:29 +00:00
libquopri.tex
librandom.tex	Add punctuation mark; add some examples	2006-07-27 19:07:29 +00:00
libre.tex	More \exception fixes.	2006-03-17 16:26:31 +00:00
libreadline.tex
librepr.tex
libresource.tex
librestricted.tex
librexec.tex
librfc822.tex
librgbimg.tex	Add deprecation notices to modules deprecated since 2000.	2006-02-17 11:18:58 +00:00
librlcompleter.tex	Patch #1472854: make the rlcompleter.Completer class usable on non-	2006-04-30 18:14:54 +00:00
librobotparser.tex
librunpy.tex	Revert the __module_name__ changes made in rev 47142. We'll revisit this in Python 2.6	2006-07-06 12:53:04 +00:00
libsched.tex
libselect.tex
libsets.tex	More \exception fixes.	2006-03-17 16:26:31 +00:00
libsgi.tex
libsgmllib.tex	SF patch 1504676: Make sgmllib char and entity references pluggable	2006-06-16 23:45:06 +00:00
libsha.tex	[ sf.net patch # 1121611 ]	2005-08-21 18:45:59 +00:00
libshelve.tex	bug [ 1248199 ] shelve .sync operation not documented	2005-08-25 22:40:16 +00:00
libshlex.tex	bug [ 1298120 ] shlex does not support unicode	2005-09-29 20:24:06 +00:00
libshutil.tex	More \exception fixes.	2006-03-17 16:26:31 +00:00
libsignal.tex	Patch #1462496: typo in libsignal.tex	2006-04-01 07:42:41 +00:00
libsimplehttp.tex	Patch #1417555: SimpleHTTPServer now returns Last-Modified headers.	2006-02-17 13:34:16 +00:00
libsimplexmlrpc.tex	[Bug #1473048]	2006-05-31 14:08:48 +00:00
libsite.tex	The site module documentation also described the Windows behaviour incorrectly.	2006-06-12 08:27:13 +00:00
libsmtpd.tex
libsmtplib.tex
libsndhdr.tex
libsocket.tex	[Bug #1475554] Strengthen text to say 'must' instead of 'should'	2006-06-03 18:33:35 +00:00
libsocksvr.tex	bug [ 957505 ] SocketServer module documentation misleading	2005-07-18 07:38:44 +00:00
libsomeos.tex
libspwd.tex	patch [ 1274630 ] documentation fixes	2005-08-27 17:04:58 +00:00
libsqlite3.tex	Updated documentation for pysqlite 2.3.0 API.	2006-06-13 22:53:48 +00:00
libstat.tex
libstatvfs.tex
libstdtypes.tex	[Bug #1515932] Clarify description of slice assignment	2006-07-03 14:07:30 +00:00
libstdwin.tex
libstring.tex
libstringio.tex	Add example	2006-07-27 18:37:33 +00:00
libstringprep.tex	added a few missing \versionadded{2.3} tags	2006-01-11 00:14:29 +00:00
libstrings.tex
libstruct.tex
libsubprocess.tex	Bug #1223937: CalledProcessError.errno -> CalledProcessError.returncode.	2006-07-14 14:04:45 +00:00
libsun.tex
libsunau.tex
libsunaudio.tex
libsymbol.tex
libsys.tex	typo	2006-07-14 21:45:48 +00:00
libsyslog.tex
libtabnanny.tex
libtarfile.tex	Patch #1484695: Update the tarfile module to version 0.8. This fixes	2006-05-10 16:26:03 +00:00
libtelnetlib.tex
libtempfile.tex
libtermios.tex
libtest.tex
libtextwrap.tex	Bug #1361643: fix textwrap.dedent() so it handles tabs appropriately,	2006-06-11 00:40:49 +00:00
libthread.tex	Patch #1454481: Make thread stack size runtime tunable.	2006-06-13 15:04:24 +00:00
libthreading.tex	Patch #1454481: Make thread stack size runtime tunable.	2006-06-13 15:04:24 +00:00
libtime.tex	Fix bug #1520914. Starting in 2.4, time.strftime() began to check the bounds	2006-07-18 04:41:36 +00:00
libtimeit.tex
libtoken.tex
libtokenize.tex	Add \exception markup	2006-05-13 06:53:31 +00:00
libtrace.tex	avoid ugly markup based on the unfortunate conversions of ">>" and "<<" to	2006-05-03 02:04:40 +00:00
libtraceback.tex	Patch #1376914: traceback.format_exc() has no "file" argument	2005-12-16 19:21:05 +00:00
libtty.tex
libturtle.tex	Patch #1519566: Remove unused _tofill member.	2006-07-10 22:11:28 +00:00
libtypes.tex	Patch #1520294: Support for getset and member descriptors in types.py,	2006-07-27 23:43:15 +00:00
libundoc.tex	Remove the lib-old modules from Doc/lib/libundoc.tex.	2006-03-17 18:47:14 +00:00
libunicodedata.tex	Update URL; add example	2006-07-27 18:53:33 +00:00
libunittest.tex	Fix markup glitch in unittest docs. Will backport.	2006-04-25 12:28:56 +00:00
libunix.tex
liburllib.tex	Bug #947571: By default, urllib.urlopen() does not raise IOErrors	2006-02-20 21:26:18 +00:00
liburllib2.tex	Minor rewording	2006-06-03 18:43:24 +00:00
liburlparse.tex	Patch #624325: urlparse.urlparse() and urlparse.urlsplit() results	2006-04-01 22:14:43 +00:00
libuser.tex
libuserdict.tex
libuu.tex
libuuid.tex	[Bug #1508766] Add docs for uuid module; docs written by George Yoshida, with minor rearrangements by me.	2006-06-28 14:25:20 +00:00
libwarnings.tex	Cover ImportWarning, PendingDeprecationWarning and simplefilter() in the warnings module docs	2006-07-06 13:41:34 +00:00
libwave.tex
libweakref.tex	SF #1479988: add methods to allow access to weakrefs for the	2006-05-02 06:53:59 +00:00
libwebbrowser.tex	Try to resolve the remaining webbrowser issues (backgrounding, local urls)	2006-01-20 21:03:35 +00:00
libwhichdb.tex
libwinreg.tex	Correct typos and markup errors (Raymond, thanks for texcheck)	2006-01-23 21:33:03 +00:00
libwinsound.tex
libwsgiref.tex	Add versionadded to doc	2006-06-11 05:45:47 +00:00
libxdrlib.tex
libxmllib.tex
libxmlrpclib.tex	Mention the xmlrpclib.Error base class, which is used in one of the examples	2006-04-27 12:42:54 +00:00
libzipfile.tex	Update url.	2006-06-17 16:39:13 +00:00
libzipimport.tex	Update url.	2006-06-17 16:39:13 +00:00
libzlib.tex	Patch #1435422: zlib's compress and decompress objects now have a	2006-05-16 07:38:27 +00:00
markup.tex	document xmlcore (still minimal; needs mention in each of the xml.* modules)	2006-07-17 05:47:52 +00:00
mimelib.tex	Merge email package 4.0 from the sandbox, including documentation, test cases,	2006-03-18 15:41:53 +00:00
minidom-example.py
modules.tex	Add more chapter intros	2005-12-22 20:27:43 +00:00
netdata.tex
numeric.tex	Add some chapter introductions (not linked into the LibRef yet)	2005-12-22 20:12:39 +00:00
persistence.tex	Add some chapter introductions (not linked into the LibRef yet)	2005-12-22 20:12:39 +00:00
required_1.py
required_2.py
tkinter.tex	Correct misspellings.	2006-01-23 22:00:17 +00:00
tzinfo-examples.py
windows.tex
xmldom.tex
xmldomminidom.tex	More \exception fixes.	2006-03-17 16:26:31 +00:00
xmldompulldom.tex	typo	2006-01-09 22:01:18 +00:00
xmletree.tex	r1076@spiff: Fredrik | 2005-12-12 22:32:28 +0100	2005-12-12 21:59:44 +00:00
xmlsax.tex
xmlsaxhandler.tex	Bug #1397205: doc typo	2006-01-10 21:37:26 +00:00
xmlsaxreader.tex
xmlsaxutils.tex