Improve handling of docstrings. I had feared this was a case of
introspection incompatibility, but in fact it's just that calltips
always gave up on a docstring that started with a newline (but
didn't realize they were giving up <wink>).
diff --git a/Tools/idle/CallTips.py b/Tools/idle/CallTips.py
index 7c5f41c..0a9eb30 100644
--- a/Tools/idle/CallTips.py
+++ b/Tools/idle/CallTips.py
@@ -143,11 +143,16 @@
except:
pass
# See if we can use the docstring
- if hasattr(ob, "__doc__") and ob.__doc__:
- pos = string.find(ob.__doc__, "\n")
- if pos<0 or pos>70: pos=70
- if argText: argText = argText + "\n"
- argText = argText + ob.__doc__[:pos]
+ doc = getattr(ob, "__doc__", "")
+ if doc:
+ while doc[:1] in " \t\n":
+ doc = doc[1:]
+ pos = doc.find("\n")
+ if pos < 0 or pos > 70:
+ pos = 70
+ if argText:
+ argText += "\n"
+ argText += doc[:pos]
return argText