From: Nikita Sobolev Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 01:24:35 +0000 (+0300) Subject: bpo-40838: document `getdoc`, `getmodule`, `getsourcefile` in `inspect` returns ... X-Git-Tag: v3.12.0a1~1516 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b86d783a4eff96306f315acf9a6f1aca85d47fc3;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git bpo-40838: document `getdoc`, `getmodule`, `getsourcefile` in `inspect` returns `None` (#30575) Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra --- diff --git a/Doc/library/inspect.rst b/Doc/library/inspect.rst index 575b3088900e..154d0f5dab0c 100644 --- a/Doc/library/inspect.rst +++ b/Doc/library/inspect.rst @@ -512,6 +512,7 @@ Retrieving source code If the documentation string for an object is not provided and the object is a class, a method, a property or a descriptor, retrieve the documentation string from the inheritance hierarchy. + Return ``None`` if the documentation string is invalid or missing. .. versionchanged:: 3.5 Documentation strings are now inherited if not overridden. @@ -535,12 +536,14 @@ Retrieving source code .. function:: getmodule(object) - Try to guess which module an object was defined in. + Try to guess which module an object was defined in. Return ``None`` + if the module cannot be determined. .. function:: getsourcefile(object) - Return the name of the Python source file in which an object was defined. This + Return the name of the Python source file in which an object was defined + or ``None`` if no way can be identified to get the source. This will fail with a :exc:`TypeError` if the object is a built-in module, class, or function. diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2022-01-13-16-03-15.bpo-40838.k3NVCf.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2022-01-13-16-03-15.bpo-40838.k3NVCf.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..0f071ab64dbe --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2022-01-13-16-03-15.bpo-40838.k3NVCf.rst @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +Document that :func:`inspect.getdoc`, :func:`inspect.getmodule`, and +:func:`inspect.getsourcefile` might return ``None``.