diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index 72923c5..1c85f87 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -docs/_build/ +doc/_build/ .coverage .ropeproject diff --git a/doc/Makefile b/doc/Makefile new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1c0212e --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/Makefile @@ -0,0 +1,153 @@ +# Makefile for Sphinx documentation +# + +# You can set these variables from the command line. +SPHINXOPTS = -a +SPHINXBUILD = sphinx-build +PAPER = +BUILDDIR = _build + +# Internal variables. +PAPEROPT_a4 = -D latex_paper_size=a4 +PAPEROPT_letter = -D latex_paper_size=letter +ALLSPHINXOPTS = -d $(BUILDDIR)/doctrees $(PAPEROPT_$(PAPER)) $(SPHINXOPTS) . +# the i18n builder cannot share the environment and doctrees with the others +I18NSPHINXOPTS = $(PAPEROPT_$(PAPER)) $(SPHINXOPTS) . + +.PHONY: help clean html dirhtml singlehtml pickle json htmlhelp qthelp devhelp epub latex latexpdf text man changes linkcheck doctest gettext + +help: + @echo "Please use \`make ' where is one of" + @echo " html to make standalone HTML files" + @echo " dirhtml to make HTML files named index.html in directories" + @echo " singlehtml to make a single large HTML file" + @echo " pickle to make pickle files" + @echo " json to make JSON files" + @echo " htmlhelp to make HTML files and a HTML help project" + @echo " qthelp to make HTML files and a qthelp project" + @echo " devhelp to make HTML files and a Devhelp project" + @echo " epub to make an epub" + @echo " latex to make LaTeX files, you can set PAPER=a4 or PAPER=letter" + @echo " latexpdf to make LaTeX files and run them through pdflatex" + @echo " text to make text files" + @echo " man to make manual pages" + @echo " texinfo to make Texinfo files" + @echo " info to make Texinfo files and run them through makeinfo" + @echo " gettext to make PO message catalogs" + @echo " changes to make an overview of all changed/added/deprecated items" + @echo " linkcheck to check all external links for integrity" + @echo " doctest to run all doctests embedded in the documentation (if enabled)" + +clean: + -rm -rf $(BUILDDIR)/* + +html: + $(SPHINXBUILD) -b html $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/html + @echo + @echo "Build finished. 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If the directory is relative to the +# documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here. +sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('_themes')) + +# -- General configuration ----------------------------------------------------- + +# If your documentation needs a minimal Sphinx version, state it here. +#needs_sphinx = '1.0' + +# Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be extensions +# coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom ones. +extensions = ['sphinx.ext.autodoc', 'sphinx.ext.intersphinx'] + +# Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory. +templates_path = ['_templates'] + +# The suffix of source filenames. +source_suffix = '.rst' + +# The encoding of source files. +#source_encoding = 'utf-8-sig' + +# The master toctree document. +master_doc = 'index' + +# General information about the project. +project = u'generic' +copyright = u'2011, Andrey Popp' + +# The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for +# |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the +# built documents. +# +# The short X.Y version. +version = '0.3.1' +# The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags. +release = '0.3.1' + +# The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation +# for a list of supported languages. +#language = None + +# There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some +# non-false value, then it is used: +#today = '' +# Else, today_fmt is used as the format for a strftime call. +#today_fmt = '%B %d, %Y' + +# List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and +# directories to ignore when looking for source files. +exclude_patterns = ['_build'] + +# The reST default role (used for this markup: `text`) to use for all documents. +#default_role = None + +# If true, '()' will be appended to :func: etc. cross-reference text. +#add_function_parentheses = True + +# If true, the current module name will be prepended to all description +# unit titles (such as .. function::). +#add_module_names = True + +# If true, sectionauthor and moduleauthor directives will be shown in the +# output. They are ignored by default. +#show_authors = False + +# The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use. +pygments_style = 'bw' + +# A list of ignored prefixes for module index sorting. +#modindex_common_prefix = [] + + +# -- Options for HTML output --------------------------------------------------- + +# The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages. See the documentation for +# a list of builtin themes. +html_theme = 'generic' + +# Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme +# further. For a list of options available for each theme, see the +# documentation. +#html_theme_options = {} + +# Add any paths that contain custom themes here, relative to this directory. +html_theme_path = ['_themes'] + +# The name for this set of Sphinx documents. If None, it defaults to +# " v documentation". +#html_title = None + +# A shorter title for the navigation bar. Default is the same as html_title. +#html_short_title = None + +# The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top +# of the sidebar. +#html_logo = None + +# The name of an image file (within the static path) to use as favicon of the +# docs. This file should be a Windows icon file (.ico) being 16x16 or 32x32 +# pixels large. +#html_favicon = None + +# Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here, +# relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files, +# so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css". +html_static_path = ['_static'] + +# If not '', a 'Last updated on:' timestamp is inserted at every page bottom, +# using the given strftime format. +#html_last_updated_fmt = '%b %d, %Y' + +# If true, SmartyPants will be used to convert quotes and dashes to +# typographically correct entities. +#html_use_smartypants = True + +# Custom sidebar templates, maps document names to template names. +#html_sidebars = {} + +# Additional templates that should be rendered to pages, maps page names to +# template names. +#html_additional_pages = {} + +# If false, no module index is generated. +#html_domain_indices = True + +# If false, no index is generated. +#html_use_index = True + +# If true, the index is split into individual pages for each letter. +#html_split_index = False + +# If true, links to the reST sources are added to the pages. +#html_show_sourcelink = True + +# If true, "Created using Sphinx" is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True. +#html_show_sphinx = True + +# If true, "(C) Copyright ..." is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True. +#html_show_copyright = True + +# If true, an OpenSearch description file will be output, and all pages will +# contain a tag referring to it. The value of this option must be the +# base URL from which the finished HTML is served. +#html_use_opensearch = '' + +# This is the file name suffix for HTML files (e.g. ".xhtml"). +#html_file_suffix = None + +# Output file base name for HTML help builder. +htmlhelp_basename = 'genericdoc' + + +# -- Options for LaTeX output -------------------------------------------------- + +latex_elements = { +# The paper size ('letterpaper' or 'a4paper'). +#'papersize': 'letterpaper', + +# The font size ('10pt', '11pt' or '12pt'). +#'pointsize': '10pt', + +# Additional stuff for the LaTeX preamble. +#'preamble': '', +} + +# Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples +# (source start file, target name, title, author, documentclass [howto/manual]). +latex_documents = [ + ('index', 'generic.tex', u'generic Documentation', + u'Andrey Popp', 'manual'), +] + +# The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top of +# the title page. +#latex_logo = None + +# For "manual" documents, if this is true, then toplevel headings are parts, +# not chapters. +#latex_use_parts = False + +# If true, show page references after internal links. +#latex_show_pagerefs = False + +# If true, show URL addresses after external links. +#latex_show_urls = False + +# Documents to append as an appendix to all manuals. +#latex_appendices = [] + +# If false, no module index is generated. +#latex_domain_indices = True + + +# -- Options for manual page output -------------------------------------------- + +# One entry per manual page. List of tuples +# (source start file, name, description, authors, manual section). +man_pages = [ + ('index', 'generic', u'generic Documentation', + [u'Andrey Popp'], 1) +] + +# If true, show URL addresses after external links. +#man_show_urls = False + + +# -- Options for Texinfo output ------------------------------------------------ + +# Grouping the document tree into Texinfo files. List of tuples +# (source start file, target name, title, author, +# dir menu entry, description, category) +texinfo_documents = [ + ('index', 'generic', u'generic Documentation', + u'Andrey Popp', 'generic', 'One line description of project.', + 'Miscellaneous'), +] + +# Documents to append as an appendix to all manuals. +#texinfo_appendices = [] + +# If false, no module index is generated. +#texinfo_domain_indices = True + +# How to display URL addresses: 'footnote', 'no', or 'inline'. +#texinfo_show_urls = 'footnote' + + +# Example configuration for intersphinx: refer to the Python standard library. +intersphinx_mapping = {'http://docs.python.org/': None} diff --git a/doc/event_system.rst b/doc/event_system.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..659d566 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/event_system.rst @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +Event system +============ diff --git a/doc/index.rst b/doc/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..38fa95b --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +Generic documentation +===================== + +Generic is trying to provide Python programmer with primitives for creating reusable +software components by employing advanced techniques of OOP and other +programming paradigms. + +This documentation suits both needs in a tutorial and an API reference for +generic: + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + multidispatching + event_system + registry + +Installation +------------ + +You can get generic by issuing *easy_install*:: + + % easy_install generic + +or *pip* command:: + + % pip install generic + +In case you find a bug or have a feature request, please file a ticket at +`GitHub Issues`_. + +.. _GitHub Issues: https://github.com/andreypopp/generic/issues + +Development process +------------------- + +Development takes place at `GitHub`_, you can clone source code repository with the +following command:: + + % git clone git://github.com/andreypopp/generic.git + +In case submitting patch or GitHub pull request please ensure you have +corresponding tests for your bugfix or new functionality. + +.. _GitHub: https://github.com/andreypopp/generic diff --git a/doc/multidispatching.rst b/doc/multidispatching.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5db0663 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/multidispatching.rst @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +Multidispatching +================ + +Multidispatching is a way of implementing `subtype polymorphism`_ in programming +languages. Python already has subtype polymorphism in form of methods on classes +-- you can define different implementations of single method on different +classes then calling such method would execute different implementation based on +type of object you call this method on. + +Generic provides another way of implementing subtype polymorphism in Python -- +multidispatching in form of *multifunctions* and *multimethods*. + +Multifunctions +-------------- + +Suppose we want to define a function which behaves differently based on +arguments' types. The naive solution is to inspect argument types with +``isinstance`` function calls but generic provides us with ``@multifunction`` +decorator which can easily reduce the amount of boilerplate code and provide +desired level of extensibility:: + + from generic.multidispatching import multifunction + + @multifunction(Dog) + def sound(o): + print "Woof!" + + @sound.when(Cat) + def sound(o): + print "Meow!" + +This works as expected:: + + >>> sound(Dog()) + Woof! + >>> sound(Cat()) + Meow! + +The main advantage of using multifunctions over single function with a bunch of +``isinstance`` checks is extensibility -- you can add more cases for other types +even in separate module:: + + from somemodule import sound + + @sound.when + def sound(o) + print "Quack!" + +When behaviour of multifunction depends on some argument we will say that this +multifunction *dispatches* on this argument. + +Multifunctions of several arguments +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +You can also have multifunctions of several arguments, you can even decide on +which of the first arguments you want to dispatch. For example the following function +will only dispatch on its first argument while requiring both of them:: + + @multifunction(Dog) + def walk(dog, meters): + print "Dog walks for %d meters" % meters + +Next example demonstrates multifunction which dispatches on its both arguments:: + + @multifunction(Dog, Cat) + def is_chases(dog, cat): + return True + + @is_chases.when(Dog, Dog) + def is_chases(dog, dog): + return None + + @is_chases.when(Cat, Dog) + def is_chases(cat, dog): + return False + +You can have any number of arguments to dispatch on but they should be all +positional, keyword arguments are allowed for multifunctions only if they're not +used for dispatch. + +Multimethods +------------ + +Multidispatching vs. subclassing +-------------------------------- + +.. _subtype polymorphism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtype_polymorphism diff --git a/doc/registry.rst b/doc/registry.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8875fb7 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/registry.rst @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +Registry +========