New feature: if the object's type has a non-NULL tp_doc field, that
is returned as the object's __doc__ attribute.
(If only the list of methods would be referenced from the type...)
diff --git a/Objects/methodobject.c b/Objects/methodobject.c
index 7b47c3f..529e2a1 100644
--- a/Objects/methodobject.c
+++ b/Objects/methodobject.c
@@ -250,8 +250,15 @@
PyObject *self;
char *name;
{
- if (strcmp(name, "__methods__") == 0)
- return listmethodchain(chain);
+ if (name[0] == '_' && name[1] == '_') {
+ if (strcmp(name, "__methods__") == 0)
+ return listmethodchain(chain);
+ if (strcmp(name, "__doc__") == 0) {
+ char *doc = self->ob_type->tp_doc;
+ if (doc != NULL)
+ return PyString_FromString(doc);
+ }
+ }
while (chain != NULL) {
PyMethodDef *ml = chain->methods;
for (; ml->ml_name != NULL; ml++) {