From 68f94ce23236de60d56877e8a9033876ae344e0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 07:02:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix docstring reuse from distutils Extension base class

---
 Cython/Distutils/extension.py | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Cython/Distutils/extension.py b/Cython/Distutils/extension.py
index c224ae5..76c8494 100644
--- a/Cython/Distutils/extension.py
+++ b/Cython/Distutils/extension.py
@@ -15,29 +15,8 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     warnings = None
 
-class Extension(_Extension.Extension):
-    _Extension.Extension.__doc__ + \
-    """cython_include_dirs : [string]
-        list of directories to search for Pyrex header files (.pxd) (in
-        Unix form for portability)
-    cython_directives : {string:value}
-        dict of compiler directives
-    cython_create_listing_file : boolean
-        write pyrex error messages to a listing (.lis) file.
-    cython_line_directives : boolean
-        emit pyx line numbers for debugging/profiling
-    cython_cplus : boolean
-        use the C++ compiler for compiling and linking.
-    cython_c_in_temp : boolean
-        put generated C files in temp directory.
-    cython_gen_pxi : boolean
-        generate .pxi file for public declarations
-    cython_gdb : boolean
-        generate Cython debug information for this extension for cygdb
-    no_c_in_traceback : boolean
-        emit the c file and line number from the traceback for exceptions
-    """
 
+class Extension(_Extension.Extension):
     # When adding arguments to this constructor, be sure to update
     # user_options.extend in build_ext.py.
     def __init__(self, name, sources,
@@ -120,4 +99,28 @@ class Extension(_Extension.Extension):
 
 # class Extension
 
+# reuse and extend original docstring from base class
+if _Extension.Extension.__doc__:  # -OO discards docstrings
+    Extension.__doc__ = _Extension.Extension.__doc__ + """\
+    cython_include_dirs : [string]
+        list of directories to search for Pyrex header files (.pxd) (in
+        Unix form for portability)
+    cython_directives : {string:value}
+        dict of compiler directives
+    cython_create_listing_file : boolean
+        write pyrex error messages to a listing (.lis) file.
+    cython_line_directives : boolean
+        emit pyx line numbers for debugging/profiling
+    cython_cplus : boolean
+        use the C++ compiler for compiling and linking.
+    cython_c_in_temp : boolean
+        put generated C files in temp directory.
+    cython_gen_pxi : boolean
+        generate .pxi file for public declarations
+    cython_gdb : boolean
+        generate Cython debug information for this extension for cygdb
+    no_c_in_traceback : boolean
+        emit the c file and line number from the traceback for exceptions
+"""
+
 read_setup_file = _Extension.read_setup_file
-- 
2.7.4