New submission from lekma <lekma...@gmail.com>: It would be nice to have an obvious/simple way to document C exceptions (especially when using the autoexception feature from Sphinx).
Something along: PyObject *PyErr_Create(char *name, const char *doc) Creates and returns a new exception object. This behaves like PyErr_Create2() with base set to NULL. PyObject *PyErr_Create2(char *name, const char *doc, PyObject *base) Creates and returns a new exception object. The name argument must be the name of the new exception, a C string of the form module.class. If doc is non-NULL, it will be used to define the docstring for the exception. if base is NULL, it creates a class object derived from Exception (accessible in C as PyExc_Exception). for py3k the signatures would be: PyObject *PyErr_Create(const char *name, const char *doc) PyObject *PyErr_Create2(const char *name, const char *doc, PyObject *base) Internally, these functions would pass a dict to PyErr_NewException with the key '__doc__' set to doc. If there is support for this, I can provide patches for trunk and py3k. ---------- components: Interpreter Core messages: 93439 nosy: lekma severity: normal status: open title: C/API - Document exceptions type: feature request versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7033> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com