Hi! Until today, I thought that introspection via "?" uses sage_getdoc. I stand corrected. Apparently it just uses _sage_getdoc_unformatted.
While sage_getdoc is supposed to remove the embedding information, introspection with "?" and _sage_getdoc_unformatted show the embedding information: {{{ sage: r = 'File: _tmp_1_spyx_0.pyx (starting at line 6)\nsome doc' sage: class Foo: ....: def _sage_doc_(self): ....: return r ....: sage: f = Foo() sage: f? Type: instance Base Class: __main__.Foo String Form: <__main__.Foo instance at 0x4760ef0> Namespace: Interactive File: /mnt/local/king/SAGE/debug/sage-4.7.2.alpha3- prerelease/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/IPython/FakeModule.py Docstring: File: _tmp_1_spyx_0.pyx (starting at line 6) some doc sage: from sage.misc.sageinspect import sage_getdoc, _sage_getdoc_unformatted sage: print sage_getdoc(f) some doc sage: print _sage_getdoc_unformatted(f) File: _tmp_1_spyx_0.pyx (starting at line 6) some doc }}} First two questions: 1) Do we want that the embedding information is not shown by "?", so that introspection for Cython modules looks more like introspection for Python? 2) If "yes": Where is introspection by "?" implemented, so that I can modify it to use sage_getdoc instead of _sage_getdoc_unformatted? The fact that "?" does not use formatting also has another not so nice effect: Latex commands are not translated into ASCII art, which sage_getdoc is capable of: {{{ sage: r = 'some doc for a cython method\n`x \\geq y`' sage: class Foo: ....: def _sage_doc_(self): ....: return r ....: sage: f = Foo() sage: f? Type: instance Base Class: __main__.Foo String Form: <__main__.Foo instance at 0x6d85a8> Namespace: Interactive File: /mnt/local/king/SAGE/debug/sage-4.7.2.alpha3- prerelease/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/IPython/FakeModule.py Docstring: some doc for a cython method `x \geq y` sage: print sage_getdoc(f) some doc for a cython method x >= y }}} So, third question: 3) Do we want that "?" detexifies the doc strings (which again would mean to replace _sage_getdoc_unformatted by sage_getdoc)? Best regards, Simon -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org