changeset 32864:f57f1f37290d

pycompat: move multiline comments above a function to function doc

pycompat.py is unorganized and looks ugly. Next few patches will try to make it
look more cleaner so that adding more code is easy and reading code also.

This patch moves the multiline comments above functions to function docs. While
moving, I improved the comments and make them better suitable for func doc.

While I was here I drop a unrequired and misplaced comment.

--- a/mercurial/pycompat.py	Fri Jun 16 01:46:47 2017 +0530
+++ b/mercurial/pycompat.py	Fri Jun 16 02:48:17 2017 +0530
@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@
 
     fsencode = os.fsencode
     fsdecode = os.fsdecode
-    # A bytes version of os.name.
     oslinesep = os.linesep.encode('ascii')
     osname = os.name.encode('ascii')
     ospathsep = os.pathsep.encode('ascii')
@@ -210,10 +209,13 @@
     def open(name, mode='r', buffering=-1):
         return builtins.open(name, sysstr(mode), buffering)
 
-    # getopt.getopt() on Python 3 deals with unicodes internally so we cannot
-    # pass bytes there. Passing unicodes will result in unicodes as return
-    # values which we need to convert again to bytes.
     def getoptb(args, shortlist, namelist):
+        """
+        Takes bytes arguments, converts them to unicode, pass them to
+        getopt.getopt(), convert the returned values back to bytes and then
+        return them for Python 3 compatibility as getopt.getopt() don't accepts
+        bytes on Python 3.
+        """
         args = [a.decode('latin-1') for a in args]
         shortlist = shortlist.decode('latin-1')
         namelist = [a.decode('latin-1') for a in namelist]
@@ -223,24 +225,30 @@
         args = [a.encode('latin-1') for a in args]
         return opts, args
 
-    # keys of keyword arguments in Python need to be strings which are unicodes
-    # Python 3. This function takes keyword arguments, convert the keys to str.
     def strkwargs(dic):
+        """
+        Converts the keys of a python dictonary to str i.e. unicodes so that
+        they can be passed as keyword arguments as dictonaries with bytes keys
+        can't be passed as keyword arguments to functions on Python 3.
+        """
         dic = dict((k.decode('latin-1'), v) for k, v in dic.iteritems())
         return dic
 
-    # keys of keyword arguments need to be unicode while passing into
-    # a function. This function helps us to convert those keys back to bytes
-    # again as we need to deal with bytes.
     def byteskwargs(dic):
+        """
+        Converts keys of python dictonaries to bytes as they were converted to
+        str to pass that dictonary as a keyword argument on Python 3.
+        """
         dic = dict((k.encode('latin-1'), v) for k, v in dic.iteritems())
         return dic
 
-    # shlex.split() accepts unicodes on Python 3. This function takes bytes
-    # argument, convert it into unicodes, pass into shlex.split(), convert the
-    # returned value to bytes and return that.
     # TODO: handle shlex.shlex().
     def shlexsplit(s):
+        """
+        Takes bytes argument, convert it to str i.e. unicodes, pass that into
+        shlex.split(), convert the returned value to bytes and return that for
+        Python 3 compatibility as shelx.split() don't accept bytes on Python 3.
+        """
         ret = shlex.split(s.decode('latin-1'))
         return [a.encode('latin-1') for a in ret]
 
@@ -259,10 +267,12 @@
     exec('def raisewithtb(exc, tb):\n'
          '    raise exc, None, tb\n')
 
-    # Partial backport from os.py in Python 3, which only accepts bytes.
-    # In Python 2, our paths should only ever be bytes, a unicode path
-    # indicates a bug.
     def fsencode(filename):
+        """
+        Partial backport from os.py in Python 3, which only accepts bytes.
+        In Python 2, our paths should only ever be bytes, a unicode path
+        indicates a bug.
+        """
         if isinstance(filename, str):
             return filename
         else: