From: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:35:53 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Patch #830858: Correct the number of is-functions. Backported to 2.3 and 2.2.
X-Git-Tag: v2.4a1~1338
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=893ffa4372f750bd21ae32ed215e39adc3c1597b;p=python

Patch #830858: Correct the number of is-functions. Backported to 2.3 and 2.2.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libinspect.tex b/Doc/lib/libinspect.tex
index 2429c7dd16..3cd04f9b7c 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libinspect.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libinspect.tex
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ and functions, and examining the interpreter stack.
 
 The \function{getmembers()} function retrieves the members
 of an object such as a class or module.
-The nine functions whose names begin with ``is'' are mainly
+The eleven functions whose names begin with ``is'' are mainly
 provided as convenient choices for the second argument to
 \function{getmembers()}.  They also help you determine when
 you can expect to find the following special attributes:
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_inspect.py b/Lib/test/test_inspect.py
index 9da6694287..3ff08b7d8a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_inspect.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_inspect.py
@@ -370,3 +370,7 @@ test(args == ['self'], 'A.m args')
 test(varargs is None, 'A.m varargs')
 test(varkw is None, 'A.m varkw')
 test(defaults is None, 'A.m defaults')
+
+# Doc/lib/libinspect.tex claims there are 11 such functions
+count = len(filter(lambda x:x.startswith('is'), dir(inspect)))
+test(count == 11, "There are %d (not 11) is* functions", count)