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Copilot AI commented Oct 8, 2025

  • Explore repository structure and identify files needing docstrings
  • Analyze codebase to find 59 functions/classes missing docstrings
  • Add docstrings to all core modules (codegen, decorators, binary_ops, etc.)
  • Add docstrings to all function processing modules
  • Add docstrings to all helper modules and utilities
  • Add docstrings to all map-related modules
  • Add docstrings to all expression processing modules
  • Add docstrings to all struct processing modules
  • Add docstrings to debug info generation modules
  • Add module-level docstrings to all 29 Python files
  • Achieved 100% documentation coverage:
    • 148/148 functions and classes have docstrings (100%)
    • 29/29 modules have module-level docstrings (100%)
    • Reduced from 59 missing docstrings to 0

Summary of Changes

This PR adds comprehensive documentation to the PythonBPF codebase:

Function/Class Docstrings (148 total)

  • Core compilation pipeline functions (compile, compile_to_ir, BPF, processor)
  • Decorator functions (bpf, map, section, struct, bpfglobal)
  • Type conversion and binary operations
  • Expression evaluation and type normalization
  • Function processing and local variable management
  • BPF helper function handlers and utilities
  • Map processing (HashMap, PerfEventArray, RingBuf classes and handlers)
  • Struct processing and field access helpers
  • Debug information generation (DWARF/BTF)
  • All utility functions and nested helpers

Module-Level Docstrings (29 modules)

  • Added descriptive module docstrings explaining the purpose of each module
  • Includes all init.py files in subdirectories
  • Covers all major subsystems: functions, helpers, maps, structs, expressions, debuginfo

All changes maintain existing functionality with no breaking changes - only documentation additions.

Original prompt

This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>Documentation</issue_title>
<issue_description>Add docstrings and maybe have an actual readthedocs page for both pylibbpf as well as this.</issue_description>

<agent_instructions>Add docstrings to whatever you can find</agent_instructions>

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Fixes #38

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varun-r-mallya and others added 3 commits October 9, 2025 10:04
Updated documentation to clarify that the compilation targets LLVM IR instead of eBPF bytecode directly.
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@copilot fix the merge conflicts and regen documentation

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Master diverged, lots of conflicts. not worth the hassle. instead regenerating.

Copilot finished work on behalf of varun-r-mallya October 13, 2025 21:10
@varun-r-mallya varun-r-mallya deleted the copilot/add-docstrings-for-pylibbpf branch October 21, 2025 23:26
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