From 42f682906da4c5388769126467319855d288e0dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Herdtweck <christian.herdtweck@intra2net.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:39:44 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] updated autodoc conf: allow __init__ to show but not __dict__ and others

---
 doc/conf.py |   13 +++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/conf.py b/doc/conf.py
index f06f6d2..875c9d0 100644
--- a/doc/conf.py
+++ b/doc/conf.py
@@ -297,7 +297,20 @@ intersphinx_mapping = {'https://docs.python.org/': None}
 
 # show doc of class AND of constructor
 autoclass_content = 'class'  # 'both' not needed if special-members is used
+                             # as default flag
 autodoc_default_flags = ['members', 'special-members', 'undoc-members',
                          'show-inheritance']
 
 autodoc_member_order = 'bysource'
+
+# want to keep __init__ members but exclude other special members
+def skip_class_members(app, what, name, obj, skip, options):
+    exclude = name in ('__weakref__', '__dict__', '__module__', '__doc__') \
+        and what == 'class'
+    if exclude:
+        print('excluding {0}'.format(name))
+    return skip or exclude
+
+def setup(app):
+    print('running custom setup in conf.py')
+    app.connect('autodoc-skip-member', skip_class_members)
-- 
1.7.1