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Package or Module page

Each of these pages has two main sections consisting of:

• summary tables submodules and subpackages and the members of the module or in the __init__.py file.
• detailed descriptions of function and attribute members.

Class page

Each class has its own separate page. Each of these pages has three main sections consisting of:

• declaration, constructors, know subclasses and description
• summary tables of members, including inherited
• detailed descriptions of method and attribute members

Entries in each of these sections are omitted if they are empty or not applicable.

Module Index

Provides a high level overview of the packages and modules structure.

Class Hierarchy

Provides a list of classes organized by inheritance structure. Note that object is ommited.

Index Of Names

The Index contains an alphabetic index of all objects in the documentation.

Indexing

By default the search only matches on the name of the object. Enable the full text search in the docstrings with the checkbox option.

You can instruct the search to look only in specific fields by passing the field name in the search like docstring:term.

Possible fields are:

• name, the name of the object (example: "MyClassAdapter" or "my_fmin_opti").
• qname, the fully qualified name of the object (example: "lib.classses.MyClassAdapter").
• names, the name splitted on camel case or snake case (example: "My Class Adapter" or "my fmin opti")
• docstring, the docstring of the object (example: "This is an adapter for HTTP json requests that logs into a file...")
• kind, can be one of: "PACKAGE", "MODULE", "CLASS", "INTERFACE", "EXCEPTION", "CLASS_METHOD", "STATIC_METHOD", "METHOD", "FUNCTION", "CONSTANT", "TYPE_VARIABLE", "TYPE_ALIAS", "CLASS_VARIABLE", "SCHEMA_FIELD", "ATTRIBUTE", "INSTANCE_VARIABLE", "PROPERTY", "VARIABLE"

Last two fields are only applicable if "search in docstrings" is enabled.

Other search features

Term presence.

The default behaviour is to give a better ranking to object matching multiple terms of your query, but still show entries that matches only one of the two terms. To change this behavour, you can use the sign +.

• To indicate a term must exactly match use the plus sing: +.
• To indicate a term must not match use the minus sing: -.

Wildcards

A trailling wildcard is automatically added to each term of your query if they don't contain an explicit term presence (+ or -). Searching for foo is the same as searching for foo*.

If the query include a dot (.), a leading wildcard will to also added, searching for model. is the same as *model.* and .model is the same as *.model*.

In addition to this automatic feature, you can manually add a wildcard anywhere else in the query.

Query examples

• "doc" matches "pydoctor.model.Documentable" and "pydoctor.model.DocLocation".
• "+doc" matches "pydoctor.model.DocLocation" but won't match "pydoctor.model.Documentable".
• "ensure doc" matches "pydoctor.epydoc2stan.ensure_parsed_docstring" and other object whose matches either "doc" or "ensure".
• "inp str" matches "java.io.InputStream" and other object whose matches either "in" or "str".
• "model." matches everything in the pydoctor.model module.
• ".web.*tag" matches "twisted.web.teplate.Tag" and related.
• "docstring:ansi" matches object whose docstring matches "ansi".