Hi,

I have a plan to improve documentations for these imported members in
4.x. But I don't have enough time at present. Unfortunatley, there is
no good way to document them better, AFAIK.

Thanks,
Takeshi KOMIYA

2021年1月29日(金) 9:12 Hong Xu <[email protected]>:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a question regarding typed annotations that are imported from internal 
> modules. This occurs for projects that put actual implementations in internal 
> modules, and only let public modules import necessary symbols.
>
> For example, the pytest project has its implementation in _pytest subpackage: 
> https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/tree/master/src/_pytest
>
> And it imports public symbols from pytest/__init__.py: 
> https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/blob/master/src/pytest/__init__.py
>
> However, the type annotation in the document seems pretty messed. For 
> example, in the doc of pytest.Function [1], one of the base classes is 
> documented as "_pytest.nodes.Item". But this object is imported from 
> pytest/__init__.py [2], and the base class should be documented as 
> "pytest.Item" instead of "_pytest.nodes.Item".
>
> I understand autodoc_type_aliases may help, but I would like to ask whether 
> there's a more generic and consistent way to handle all these situations.
>
> Thanks!
> Hong
>
> [1]: https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/reference.html#pytest.Function
> [2]: 
> https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/blob/6a5d47a243d2ddbf92fca5e807cf1324d60cabb1/src/pytest/__init__.py#L32
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