On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 1:41 AM Marko Ristin-Kaufmann <marko.ris...@gmail.com> wrote: > (If you wonder about the use case: I'd like to dynamically generate the > docstrings when functions are decorated with contracts from icontract > library. Condition functions need to be parsed and re-formatted, so this is > something that should be done on-demand, when the user either wants to see > the help() or when the sphinx documentation is automatically generated. The > docs should not inflict computational overhead during the decoration since > normal course of program operation does not need pretty-printed contracts.) >
Have you tried just generating the docstrings at decoration time and applying them? By the sound of it, they won't change after that, and the only reason to run it later is performance... but have you actually measured a performance hit resulting from that? ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
