Make the api of the _dispatch() method more concrete. I have no idea if
this is the right way to document such things (Fred, help me out here :-),
but I got misled by the existing documentation and assumed the parameter
list was a *args sort of thing.
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libsimplexmlrpc.tex b/Doc/lib/libsimplexmlrpc.tex
index 44d14f5..dd486d9 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libsimplexmlrpc.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libsimplexmlrpc.tex
@@ -59,8 +59,13 @@
Register an object which is used to expose method names which have
not been registered using \method{register_function()}. If
\var{instance} contains a \method{_dispatch()} method, it is called
- with the requested method name and the parameters from the request;
- the return value is returned to the client as the result. If
+ with the requested method name and the parameters from the request. Its
+ API is \code{def \method{_dispatch}(self, method, params)} (note tha
+ \var{params} does not represent a variable argument list). If it calls an
+ underlying function to perform its task, that function is called as
+ \code{func(*params)}, expanding the parameter list.
+ The return value from \method{_dispatch()} is returned to the client as
+ the result. If
\var{instance} does not have a \method{_dispatch()} method, it is
searched for an attribute matching the name of the requested method;
if the requested method name contains periods, each component of the