Method index

Lib/pydoc.py:1176–1189

Generate an HTML index for a directory of modules.

(self, dir, shadowed=None)

        return lhs + self.repr(object)

    def index(self, dir, shadowed=None):
        """Generate an HTML index for a directory of modules."""
        modpkgs = []
        if shadowed is None: shadowed = {}
        for importer, name, ispkg in pkgutil.iter_modules([dir]):
            if any((0xD800 <= ord(ch) <= 0xDFFF) for ch in name):
                # ignore a module if its name contains a surrogate character
                continue
            modpkgs.append((name, '', ispkg, name in shadowed))
            shadowed[name] = 1

        modpkgs.sort()
        contents = self.multicolumn(modpkgs, self.modpkglink)
        return self.bigsection(dir, 'index', contents)

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