import re def count_leading_whitespace(s): count = 0 for c in s: if c.isspace(): count += 1 else: break return count def process_docstring(app, what, name, obj, options, lines): """This hook edits the docstrings to replace "
" html tags,
    Breathe-style verbatim embed blocks, and deprecated markers with
    sphinx directives.
    """
    def repl(m):
        s = m.group(1)
        if not s.startswith(linesep):
            s = linesep + s
        newline = '.. code-block:: c++' + linesep
        return newline + '    ' + s.replace(linesep, linesep + '    ')
    def repl2(m):
        s = m.group(1)
        if not s.startswith(linesep):
            s = linesep + s
        newline = '|LINEBREAK|.. admonition::|LINEBREAK|   Deprecated' + linesep
        return newline + '    ' + s.replace(linesep, linesep + '    ')
    def repl3(m):
        s = m.group(1)
        return '*' + s + '*'
    def repl4(m):
        s = m.group(1)
        if s.startswith("embed:rst"):
            lines = s.split(linesep)[1:]

            # Match behaviour of Breathe
            if s.startswith("embed:rst:leading-asterisk"):
                lines = [l.replace("*", " ", 1) for l in lines]
            elif s.startswith("embed:rst:leading-slashes"):
                lines = [l.replace("///", "   ", 1) for l in lines]

            # Strip leading whitespace to match first line
            to_strip = count_leading_whitespace(lines[0])
            lines = [l[to_strip:] for l in lines]

            return linesep.join(lines)
        else:
            s = m.group(1)
            if not s.startswith(linesep):
                s = linesep + s
            newline = '.. verbatim::' + linesep
            return newline + '    ' + s.replace(linesep, linesep + '    ')

    linesep = '|LINEBREAK|'
    joined = linesep.join(lines)

    joined = re.sub(r'
((|LINEBREAK|)?.*?)
', repl, joined) joined = re.sub(r'(.*?)', repl, joined) joined = re.sub(r'@deprecated(.*?\|LINEBREAK\|)', repl2, joined, flags=re.IGNORECASE) joined = re.sub(r'(.*?)', repl3, joined) joined = re.sub(r'(.*?)', repl4, joined) lines[:] = [(l if not l.isspace() else '') for l in joined.split(linesep)] def setup(app): app.connect('autodoc-process-docstring', process_docstring) def test(): lines = ['Hello World', '
', 'contents', '
', '', 'contents2'] linesRef = ['Hello World', '.. code-block:: c++', '', ' contents', '', '', '.. code-block:: c++', '', ' contents2'] process_docstring(None, None, None, None, None, lines) assert lines == linesRef if __name__ == '__main__': test()