import sys import types from matplotlib import cbook class Substitution(object): """ A decorator to take a function's docstring and perform string substitution on it. This decorator should be robust even if func.__doc__ is None (for example, if -OO was passed to the interpreter) Usage: construct a docstring.Substitution with a sequence or dictionary suitable for performing substitution; then decorate a suitable function with the constructed object. e.g. sub_author_name = Substitution(author='Jason') @sub_author_name def some_function(x): "%(author)s wrote this function" # note that some_function.__doc__ is now "Jason wrote this function" One can also use positional arguments. sub_first_last_names = Substitution('Edgar Allen', 'Poe') @sub_first_last_names def some_function(x): "%s %s wrote the Raven" """ def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): assert not (len(args) and len(kwargs)), \ "Only positional or keyword args are allowed" self.params = args or kwargs def __call__(self, func): func.__doc__ = func.__doc__ and func.__doc__ % self.params return func def update(self, *args, **kwargs): "Assume self.params is a dict and update it with supplied args" self.params.update(*args, **kwargs) @classmethod def from_params(cls, params): """ In the case where the params is a mutable sequence (list or dictionary) and it may change before this class is called, one may explicitly use a reference to the params rather than using *args or **kwargs which will copy the values and not reference them. """ result = cls() result.params = params return result class Appender(object): """ A function decorator that will append an addendum to the docstring of the target function. This decorator should be robust even if func.__doc__ is None (for example, if -OO was passed to the interpreter). Usage: construct a docstring.Appender with a string to be joined to the original docstring. An optional 'join' parameter may be supplied which will be used to join the docstring and addendum. e.g. add_copyright = Appender("Copyright (c) 2009", join='\n') @add_copyright def my_dog(has='fleas'): "This docstring will have a copyright below" pass """ def __init__(self, addendum, join=''): self.addendum = addendum self.join = join def __call__(self, func): docitems = [func.__doc__, self.addendum] func.__doc__ = func.__doc__ and self.join.join(docitems) return func def dedent(func): "Dedent a docstring (if present)" func.__doc__ = func.__doc__ and cbook.dedent(func.__doc__) return func def copy(source): "Copy a docstring from another source function (if present)" def do_copy(target): if source.__doc__: target.__doc__ = source.__doc__ return target return do_copy # create a decorator that will house the various documentation that # is reused throughout matplotlib interpd = Substitution() def dedent_interpd(func): """A special case of the interpd that first performs a dedent on the incoming docstring""" return interpd(dedent(func)) def copy_dedent(source): """A decorator that will copy the docstring from the source and then dedent it""" # note the following is ugly because "Python is not a functional # language" - GVR. Perhaps one day, functools.compose will exist. # or perhaps not. # http://mail.python.org/pipermail/patches/2007-February/021687.html return lambda target: dedent(copy(source)(target))