# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- """ sphinx.util.docstrings ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Utilities for docstring processing. :copyright: Copyright 2007-2011 by the Sphinx team, see AUTHORS. :license: BSD, see LICENSE for details. """ import sys def prepare_docstring(s, ignore=1): """Convert a docstring into lines of parseable reST. Remove common leading indentation, where the indentation of a given number of lines (usually just one) is ignored. Return the docstring as a list of lines usable for inserting into a docutils ViewList (used as argument of nested_parse().) An empty line is added to act as a separator between this docstring and following content. """ lines = s.expandtabs().splitlines() # Find minimum indentation of any non-blank lines after ignored lines. margin = sys.maxint for line in lines[ignore:]: content = len(line.lstrip()) if content: indent = len(line) - content margin = min(margin, indent) # Remove indentation from ignored lines. for i in range(ignore): if i < len(lines): lines[i] = lines[i].lstrip() if margin < sys.maxint: for i in range(ignore, len(lines)): lines[i] = lines[i][margin:] # Remove any leading blank lines. while lines and not lines[0]: lines.pop(0) # make sure there is an empty line at the end if lines and lines[-1]: lines.append('') return lines def prepare_commentdoc(s): """Extract documentation comment lines (starting with #:) and return them as a list of lines. Returns an empty list if there is no documentation. """ result = [] lines = [line.strip() for line in s.expandtabs().splitlines()] for line in lines: if line.startswith('#:'): line = line[2:] # the first space after the comment is ignored if line and line[0] == ' ': line = line[1:] result.append(line) if result and result[-1]: result.append('') return result