Method markup

Lib/pydoc.py:777–814

Mark up some plain text, given a context of symbols to look for. Each context dictionary maps object names to anchor names.

(self, text, escape=None, funcs={}, classes={}, methods={})

        return '<a href="file:%s">%s</a>' % (url, path)

    def markup(self, text, escape=None, funcs={}, classes={}, methods={}):
        """Mark up some plain text, given a context of symbols to look for.
        Each context dictionary maps object names to anchor names."""
        escape = escape or self.escape
        results = []
        here = 0
        pattern = re.compile(r'\b((http|https|ftp)://\S+[\w/]|'
                                r'RFC[- ]?(\d+)|'
                                r'PEP[- ]?(\d+)|'
                                r'(self\.)?(\w+))')
        while match := pattern.search(text, here):
            start, end = match.span()
            results.append(escape(text[here:start]))

            all, scheme, rfc, pep, selfdot, name = match.groups()
            if scheme:
                url = escape(all).replace('"', '&quot;')
                results.append('<a href="%s">%s</a>' % (url, url))
            elif rfc:
                url = 'https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc%d.txt' % int(rfc)
                results.append('<a href="%s">%s</a>' % (url, escape(all)))
            elif pep:
                url = 'https://peps.python.org/pep-%04d/' % int(pep)
                results.append('<a href="%s">%s</a>' % (url, escape(all)))
            elif selfdot:
                # Create a link for methods like 'self.method(...)'
                # and use <strong> for attributes like 'self.attr'
                if text[end:end+1] == '(':
                    results.append('self.' + self.namelink(name, methods))
                else:
                    results.append('self.<strong>%s</strong>' % name)
            elif text[end:end+1] == '(':
                results.append(self.namelink(name, methods, funcs, classes))
            else:
                results.append(self.namelink(name, classes))
            here = end
        results.append(escape(text[here:]))
        return ''.join(results)

    # ---------------------------------------------- type-specific routines