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Follow-up to #8830. Docstrings from the doc database are now stored xz-compressed in the binary instead of as plain text, behind a doc cargo feature. The doc database generator is also fixed so it no longer records Python-defined classes.

Doc DB generator fix (Skip Python-defined classes when collecting builtin type docs)

generate.py imports the whole stdlib and then records every object.__subclasses__() entry as builtins.<name>. Classes written in Python (tkinter Misc, unittest.TestCase, tarfile.TarFile, smtplib.SMTP, …) therefore ended up in the database even though their docs come from Python source.

A class is now skipped when all of these hold:

  • it is a heap type without Py_TPFLAGS_IMMUTABLETYPE
  • it owns no method, wrapper or classmethod descriptors
  • its __module__ is not a C extension

C types reachable only through object.__subclasses__() are kept: re.Match/Pattern, zlib Compress/Decompress, pyexpat xmlparser, _elementtree.Element, arrayiterator, typing.Generic and ast.AST.

The removed keys (9,137) were computed by running the old and new generator with CPython 3.14 and deleted from data.inc.rs. The next update-doc-db run regenerates the file with the new rule.

Compressed storage (Store database docstrings xz-compressed behind an optional doc feature)

  • rustpython-doc's build script compresses all database docstrings into one xz stream (preset 9, 122 KB) with an offset index. Identical texts share one offset.
  • Macros emit references into the blob instead of &'static str docs. The vm decompresses the blob on first access.
  • Signature prefixes (name(sig)\n--\n\n) stay static, so __text_signature__ needs no decompression.
  • Per-class SLOT_DOCS arrays are removed, and doc lookup goes through one shared function.
  • New doc feature, on by default, in rustpython, rustpython-vm and rustpython-stdlib. Without it the blob and xz are not linked and database-backed __doc__ is None. __text_signature__ still works. Wasm enables doc; the xz decoder builds for wasm32-unknown-unknown.

Results (macOS arm64 release)

build size vs upstream/main
upstream/main (e2ca208) 37,984,064
this PR (doc on, default) 37,788,448 −196 KB
this PR, doc off 37,550,624 −403 KB (measured against the previous base, 37,953,760)

__doc__ and __text_signature__ for all 4,690 native objects in the dump are identical to upstream/main. So are the whats_left --doc/--signature JSON dumps.

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  • New Features

    • Built-in functions, methods, types, and attributes can display richer documentation, including for descriptors and operator methods.
    • Function and method documentation includes text signatures where available.
    • Documentation support is enabled by default across standard and WebAssembly builds.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Documentation for Python-defined classes is sourced from Python code rather than included among built-in type documentation.

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The change adds an XZ-compressed documentation database with indexed references. Derive macros and VM documentation structures carry documentation text or database spans. VM objects and C API adapters render documentation through the new representation.

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Indexed documentation support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Enable documentation support
Cargo.toml, crates/stdlib/Cargo.toml, crates/vm/Cargo.toml, crates/wasm/Cargo.toml, .github/workflows/*
Default and crate-specific Cargo features enable documentation support in the VM and, where configured, the standard library and wasm build. CI, release, coverage, and cache workflows enable the doc feature.
Build and expose indexed documentation
crates/doc/Cargo.toml, crates/doc/build.rs, crates/doc/generate.py, crates/doc/src/lib.rs
The documentation crate generates an index and XZ-compressed blob. Lookup APIs return DocRef values, and tests compare generated references and text with the original database. The generator skips Python-defined classes when collecting built-in type documentation.
Carry documentation metadata through the VM
crates/vm/src/function/*, crates/vm/src/types/slot.rs, crates/vm/src/vm/context.rs, crates/vm/src/vm/vm_new.rs, crates/vm/src/codecs.rs, crates/vm/src/macros.rs, crates/vm/src/stdlib/*, crates/vm/src/types/structseq.rs
The VM adds ItemDoc and span-aware method and slot documentation fields. Signature helpers and VM constructors pass documentation metadata through method definitions, members, and type slots.
Generate documentation references
crates/derive-impl/src/class_docs.rs, crates/derive-impl/src/pyclass.rs, crates/derive-impl/src/pystructseq.rs, crates/derive-impl/src/util.rs, crates/derive-impl/src/pymodule.rs
Derive macros emit ItemDoc values and attribute documentation spans. Module and function documentation generation uses DocRef values with Rust documentation as a fallback.
Render documentation across VM objects
crates/vm/src/builtins/*, crates/vm/src/class.rs, crates/vm/src/stdlib/sys.rs, crates/vm/src/vm/mod.rs, crates/capi/src/*
VM builtins, descriptors, class slots, module initialization, and C API adapters render documentation from ItemDoc text or database spans.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PyNativeFunction
  participant rendered_item_doc
  participant db_doc
  participant DocumentationBlob
  PyNativeFunction->>rendered_item_doc: Render ItemDoc
  rendered_item_doc->>db_doc: Resolve documentation offset and length
  db_doc->>DocumentationBlob: Read and decode span
  DocumentationBlob-->>db_doc: Return text
  db_doc-->>rendered_item_doc: Return documentation text
  rendered_item_doc-->>PyNativeFunction: Return rendered documentation
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to bdf75

The no-default-features wasm build cannot compile. Remove the unconditional dependency features before merging; the broader documentation feature mismatch also remains open.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to bdf75

No attacker-controlled documentation data was found entering the new decoder. However, the browser build cannot reliably opt out of the documentation feature, which limits that build configuration as a fallback.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: A wasm build without default features disables the consuming crate's doc feature but still enables it in the VM dependency. Generated class definitions then select an ATTR_DOCS type incompatible with the VM trait, preventing this no-doc configuration from serving as a build fallback.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — A failure while decoding the shared embedded blob could affect documentation lookups across a VM process, rather than only one class. The inspected code does not show a route for Python input to replace that blob.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The build embeds the compressed data; runtime span lookup checks arithmetic and string boundaries. Invalid spans return no text, whereas corrupt compressed or non-UTF-8 blob data panics.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — After a successful first decode, lookups share completed immutable state. A failed initialization is not published as partial data, but another lookup can encounter the same panic; the generated-artifact round-trip test reduces, without eliminating, that failure possibility.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Align wasm dependency feature selection with its own doc feature and verify both default and no-default-features builds, so the latter remains an available fallback.
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🟠 Major · Make dynamic C-API documentation owned by ItemDoc. · doctext.rs:13-17

crates/vm/src/function/doctext.rs:13-17
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Make dynamic C-API documentation owned by ItemDoc.

When non-empty documentation reaches PyDescr_NewMember or PyCFunction_New/PyCFunction_NewEx, the builders copy it into a Box and call Box::leak. ItemDoc stores only the resulting &'static str, so dropping the descriptor or function wrapper cannot free that allocation. Repeated construction can grow process memory until it causes an availability failure.

Use one ownership-capable ItemDoc representation for dynamic text. Make both builders store that owned text in DescriptorMemberDef.doc or HeapMethodDef. Update the documentation accessor to borrow from the owning ItemDoc. This preserves documentation for the owner lifetime and removes both leaks.

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In `@crates/vm/src/function/doctext.rs` around lines 13 - 17, Update ItemDoc to
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🟡 Minor · Do not enable VM documentation unconditionally. · Cargo.toml:15-26

crates/wasm/Cargo.toml:15-26
🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Do not enable VM documentation unconditionally.

--no-default-features does not disable dependency defaults. rustpython-vm therefore still enables its default doc feature, and the dependency also explicitly requests doc. When freeze-stdlib enables rustpython-stdlib, its unconditional doc feature enables the same VM feature. The build consequently includes the documentation blob and xz decoder.

Suggested fix
-rustpython-stdlib = { workspace = true, default-features = false, optional = true, features = ["doc"] }
+rustpython-stdlib = { workspace = true, default-features = false, optional = true }

-rustpython-vm = { workspace = true, features = ["compiler", "encodings", "serde", "wasmbind", "doc"] }
+rustpython-vm = { workspace = true, default-features = false, features = ["compiler", "encodings", "serde", "wasmbind", "gc", "host_env", "stdio"] }
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In @crates/wasm/Cargo.toml around lines 15 - 26, Update the `rustpython-vm` and
`rustpython-stdlib` dependency declarations to disable dependency defaults and
remove their unconditional `doc` features, so documentation remains enabled only
through the `doc` feature. Preserve the required non-documentation VM features,
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In @crates/derive-impl/src/class_docs.rs:
- Around line 36-46: Update the ItemDoc construction in the derive expansion to
always retain the offset and len, removing the consuming crate’s doc-feature cfg
and ItemDoc::NONE fallback. This preserves database-backed documentation spans
while allowing VM documentation settings to determine whether db_doc returns
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unconditional `doc` features, so documentation remains enabled only through the
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Comment on lines +36 to +46
#[cfg(feature = "doc")]
{
::rustpython_vm::function::ItemDoc {
text: None,
offset: #offset,
len: #len,
}
}
#[cfg(not(feature = "doc"))]
{
::rustpython_vm::function::ItemDoc::NONE

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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  printf '\n--- %s ---\n' "$f"
  sed -n '1,100p' "$f"
done
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rg -n --glob '*.rs' '#\[derive\([^]]*PyClass|#\[pyclass|rustpython_derive|rustpython::.*derive|derive::Py' crates
printf '%s\n' '--- doc feature declarations and forwarding ---'
rg -n --glob 'Cargo.toml' '(^|\s)(doc\s*=|features\s*=.*doc|rustpython-vm/doc|rustpython-stdlib/doc)' .
printf '%s\n' '--- ItemDoc definitions and uses ---'
rg -n --glob '*.rs' 'struct ItemDoc|enum ItemDoc|ItemDoc::|item_doc|attr_docs' crates/vm crates/derive crates/derive-impl crates/stdlib crates/wasm
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rg -l --glob '*.rs' 'struct ItemDoc|impl ItemDoc' crates/vm | xargs -r -n1 sh -c 'echo --- "$0"; rg -n -A80 -B15 "struct ItemDoc|impl ItemDoc" "$0"'

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nl -ba crates/vm/Cargo.toml | sed -n '10,42p'
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rg -l --glob '*.rs' '#\[pyclass|#\[pymodule|#\[pystruct_sequence' crates/stdlib/src crates/vm/src | sort | head -80
rg -n --glob '*.rs' 'module\s*=\s*"builtins"|module\s*=\s*"[^"]+"|#\[pyclass' crates/stdlib/src | head -80
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Do not gate database references on the consuming crate’s doc feature.

When the root crate enables stdlib without its doc feature, rustpython-stdlib has documentation disabled because the dependency uses default-features = false. The root crate still enables rustpython-vm/doc through its direct VM dependency’s default features. The derive expansion can therefore replace a nonempty database-backed ItemDoc with ItemDoc::NONE, which removes Python __doc__ values.

Keep the span in ItemDoc. With VM doc disabled, db_doc already returns None, so retaining the span preserves the disabled behavior.

🐛 Suggested fix
-            {
-                #[cfg(feature = "doc")]
-                {
-                    ::rustpython_vm::function::ItemDoc {
-                        text: None,
-                        offset: #offset,
-                        len: #len,
-                    }
-                }
-                #[cfg(not(feature = "doc"))]
-                {
-                    ::rustpython_vm::function::ItemDoc::NONE
-                }
-            }
+            ::rustpython_vm::function::ItemDoc {
+                text: None,
+                offset: #offset,
+                len: #len,
+            }
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In @crates/derive-impl/src/class_docs.rs around lines 36 - 46, Update the
ItemDoc construction in the derive expansion to always retain the offset and
len, removing the consuming crate’s doc-feature cfg and ItemDoc::NONE fallback.
This preserves database-backed documentation spans while allowing VM
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🟡 Minor · Preserve explicit empty attribute docs. · class.rs:21-22

crates/vm/src/class.rs:21-22
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve explicit empty attribute docs.

add_operators converts (u32::MAX, 0) to (0, 0). Both wrapper __doc__ accessors then fall back to slot text. Preserve the sentinel and return "" for it before the fallback.

Suggested fix
-        Some((offset, len)) if len != 0 => (offset, len),
+        Some((u32::MAX, 0)) => (u32::MAX, 0),
+        Some((offset, len)) if len != 0 => (offset, len),
         _ => (0, 0),

Add the explicit-empty check to both PyWrapper::__doc__ and PyMethodWrapper::__doc__:

     fn __doc__(&self) -> Option<&'static str> {
+        if self.plain_off == u32::MAX && self.plain_len == 0 {
+            return Some("");
+        }
         if self.plain_len != 0 {
     fn __doc__(&self) -> Option<&'static str> {
+        if self.wrapper.plain_off == u32::MAX && self.wrapper.plain_len == 0 {
+            return Some("");
+        }
         if self.wrapper.plain_len != 0 {
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In @crates/vm/src/class.rs around lines 21 - 22, Update add_operators to
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generate.py recorded every object.__subclasses__() entry as builtins.<name>
after importing the whole stdlib, so classes written in Python (tkinter,
unittest, tarfile, ...) ended up in the doc database. Classes that are
mutable heap types without C method descriptors and whose module is not a
C extension are now skipped, and their entries are removed from
data.inc.rs.

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- rustpython-doc's build script compresses all database docstrings into
  one xz blob with an offset index; identical texts share one offset.
- Macros emit blob references for database docs; vm decompresses the
  blob on first access.
- New `doc` cargo feature (default on) in rustpython, rustpython-vm and
  rustpython-stdlib. Without it the blob and xz are not linked and
  database-backed __doc__ is None; __text_signature__ is unaffected.
- Native types without a docstring get __doc__ = None in their dict.
- Workflows that build with --no-default-features enable `doc` where
  tests or releases need docstrings.

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🟠 Major · Remove the unconditional doc features so no-default-features can compile. · Cargo.toml:15-26

crates/wasm/Cargo.toml:15-26
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Remove the unconditional doc features so no-default-features can compile.

With --no-default-features, the wasm crate emits name-only ATTR_DOCS, while rustpython-vm/doc requires (name, offset, length) entries. The reachable #[pyclass] expansions therefore fail to implement PyClassDef.

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-rustpython-stdlib = { workspace = true, default-features = false, optional = true, features = ["doc"] }
+rustpython-stdlib = { workspace = true, default-features = false, optional = true }
...
-rustpython-vm = { workspace = true, features = ["compiler", "encodings", "serde", "wasmbind", "doc"] }
+rustpython-vm = { workspace = true, features = ["compiler", "encodings", "serde", "wasmbind"] }
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In @crates/wasm/Cargo.toml around lines 15 - 26, Remove the unconditional doc
feature from the rustpython-stdlib and rustpython-vm dependency declarations in
the wasm crate’s Cargo.toml. Keep documentation support opt-in through the
existing doc feature so no-default-features builds use matching ATTR_DOCS and
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In @crates/wasm/Cargo.toml:
- Around line 15-26: Remove the unconditional doc feature from the
rustpython-stdlib and rustpython-vm dependency declarations in the wasm crate’s
Cargo.toml. Keep documentation support opt-in through the existing doc feature
so no-default-features builds use matching ATTR_DOCS and PyClassDef
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  • crates/vm/src/builtins/descriptor.rs
  • crates/vm/src/builtins/getset.rs
  • crates/vm/src/builtins/type.rs
  • crates/vm/src/class.rs
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