[C++-sig] functions not showing up in pydoc

[Nick Rasmussen]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 18:01 -0800, Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve wrote:
> 
> > > Also, for functions with overloads, only one of the docstrings
> > > is printed out. It looks like
> > > 
> > > void function::add_to_namespace(
> > >     object const& name_space, char const* name_, object const& attribute,
> > > char const* doc)
> > > 
> > > just replaces the old doc string instead of appending the new one
> > > to the old.
> > 
> > Another case for a volunteer...
> > 
> > Sorry that I cannot be more helpful.
> 
> I have a patch that implements this feature, with the effect that
> sequential docstrings will have a single blank line separating them.
> Here is the documentation change that describes its behavior:
> 
> (from doc/v2/class.html, Effects of the "docstring" argument to
> class::def)
> Value will be bound to the __doc__ attribute of the resulting method
> overload. If an earlier overload supplied a docstring, two newline
> characters and the new docstring are appended to it.
> 
> I have attached the patch for comment.  If there are no objections I can
> commit it tomorrow afternoon.

Exactly what I was looking for.  Thanks.

-nick