Give xxsubtype a module docstring, so its oddball purpose is discoverable
from a prompt without searching the source code (there was an SF bug
report about this, already closed ... "479568 xxsubtype builtin").
diff --git a/Modules/xxsubtype.c b/Modules/xxsubtype.c
index bbc5ea9..58024d1 100644
--- a/Modules/xxsubtype.c
+++ b/Modules/xxsubtype.c
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
#include "Python.h"
#include "structmember.h"
-/* Examples showing how to subtype the builtin list and dict types from C. */
+static char xxsubtype__doc__[] =
+"xxsubtype is an example module showing how to subtype builtin types from C.\n"
+"test_descr.py in the standard test suite requires it in order to complete.\n"
+"If you don't care about the examples, and don't intend to run the Python\n"
+"test suite, you can recompile Python without Modules/xxsubtype.c.";
/* spamlist -- a list subtype */
@@ -227,7 +231,9 @@
{
PyObject *m, *d;
- m = Py_InitModule("xxsubtype", xxsubtype_functions);
+ m = Py_InitModule3("xxsubtype",
+ xxsubtype_functions,
+ xxsubtype__doc__);
if (m == NULL)
return;