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The python method help docs are copied across from the C funtion comments, but in the process all line breaks and indentation was being lost. This made the resulting text and code examples completely unreadable. Both the API doc extractor and the python generator were destroying whitespace & this fixes them to preserve it exactly. * docs/apibuild.py: Preserve all whitespace when extracting function comments. Print function comment inside a <![CDATA[ section to fully preserve all whitespace. Look for the word 'returns' to describe return values, instead of 'return' to avoid getting confused with code examples including the C 'return' statement. * python/generator.py: Preserve all whitespace when printing function help docs * src/libvirt.c: Change any return parameter indicated by 'return' to be 'returns', to avoid confusing the API extractor * docs/libvirt-api.xml: Re-build for fixed descriptions
libvirt Python Bindings README
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Most of the libvirt python binding code is automatically generated
using the script generator.py, and the API description from
docs/libvirt-api.xml
Manually written files:
- libvirt-override.c: methods where the C binding needs to be hand crafted
- libvirt-override.py: global methods where the C and python bindings have different args
- libvirt-override-api.xml: methods where the auto-extracted API docs are not
suitable for python auto-generator. Overriding this if the method is going
into libvirt-override.c, but we still want auto-generated libvirt-override.py
- libvirt-override-virConnect.py: virConnect class methods
- typewrappers.h,.c: Python object wrappers for each libvirt C object
Auto-generated files:
- libvirt.py: The main python binding. Comprises auto-generated code, along
with contents from libvirt-override.py and libvirt-override-virConnect.py
- libvirt.c, libvirt.h: The C glue layer for the python binding. Comprises
auto-generated code, along with libvirt-override.c
- libvirt-export.c: List of auto-generated C methods, included into
the libvirt-override.c method table