> Bug 729103 discovered an interesting little issue; 'super' instances > cause inspect.isroutine to return True since it also poses as a non-data > descriptor. Now this is bad because pydoc then tries to get a __name__ > attribute out of it which it lacks because it is an instance of a class > and not really a function or method. > > So, should I change inspect.isroutine to check to see if its argument is > an instance of 'super'? Is there a robust way to check if something is > an instance of a class which could be used instead to make this more > general (like lacking a __name__ attribute)? Or do we just cause pydoc > to spit out "RTM online" every time it raises an error. =) inspect shouldn't assume hat just because isroutine() returns true, there has to be a __name__ attribue. Unfortunately, inspect is full of such assumptions. :-) --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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